Learn about and revise the topics of relational databases and structured query language (SQL) with this BBC Bitesize GCSE Computer Science AQA study guide.

SQL-based relational servers are built to handle the demands of financial transactions, designed around the tenets of ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability.

What does relational database actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

For technical clarification, databases come in two flavors: relational and non-relational. Relational (SQL) databases store data in tables with strictly-defined relationships between tables.

For example, if your load triples overnight, how quickly can you upgrade your hardware? The second scenario can be too difficult to manage with a relational database in general.

Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links to subordinates called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables.

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical ...

A next-generation graph-relational database (DB) system has been developed in South Korea. If this system is applied in ...

NoSQL attacked both relational databases and SQL in the same vein. The main problem this time was that the Internet had destroyed the underlying premise of the 40-year-old relational database ...