Relational databases and the SQL language are still the architecture and lingua franca for the design, development and management of database applications.

Stay tuned for “The end of SQL databases – part 2” (of a 3 part series) where we will take a walk through some of the currently available open and closed source NoSQL databases.

Joey on SQL Server A Deep Dive Inside Azure SQL Database, Part 1 Microsoft promises 99.995 percent uptime for the Azure SQL platform, which is incredible.

Inside the TFS Databases, Part 2 Jeff continues his exploration of the TfsWorkItemTracking database by showing you how to retrieve a record from a given point in time using some helpful SQL statements ...

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

In the first of this two-part series, Microsoft's lead SQL architect explains how the company collects -- and secures -- telemetry data from Azure SQL Database customers to improve its engineering ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.