This week, Facebook's development organization announced its completion of the type of tasks that enterprises dread: a major upgrade to its core database. Larry Dignan outlined the high points in his ...

Enterprises continue to march their applications and workloads into the cloud, but, for many, a database migration to the cloud feels like a bridge too far. Gartner predicts 75% of databases will run ...

Due to my background working with other major database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, I’ve long been an advocate for the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This powerful and easy ...

MySQL, the open source relational database that came to Oracle through the Sun Microsystems acquisition, originated as a relatively simple relational database that was known for one task: transaction ...