databases

Book Giveaway & Chapter Download: Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases

DZone and Packt Publishing have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases' (by Ronald Rood). This...

2 replies - 2642 views - 09/23/09 by lyndsey in Articles

A Better MySQL Replication Heartbeat

If you’ve used MySQL replication you’ve probably discovered that slave machines can lag behind the master. Replication can also break completely, requiring...

4 replies - 6232 views - 02/05/09 by Derek Young in Articles

Maintaining A SQL Server Database - Maintenance Plans

This video shows you how to create a maintenance plan in SQL Server 2005 to backup and maintain your database. It also shows you how to use choose the right...

1 replies - 2063 views - 07/19/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Database Scalability

Database is typically the last piece of the puzzle of the scalability problem. There are some common techniques to scale the DB tier.IndexingMake sure...

0 replies - 2196 views - 07/15/08 by riho in News

Kill Your Users Table

It's time to rethink how we store user information. You don't need as much as you think you do. Consider...Reddit's database was stolen a little over a year...

2 replies - 1537 views - 07/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

MySQL 6.0.5-alpha Released

MySQL 6.0.5-alpha, a new version of the MySQL database system including the Falcon transactional storage engine, has been released. The main page for MySQL 6.0...

0 replies - 1822 views - 06/28/08 by Schalk Neethling in Announcements

.NET LINQ to MSI - Part 1 - Interop

Without any physical data access layer, there's no way to build abstractions on top of it. So, in this part of this series we'll take a look at some very...

0 replies - 1785 views - 06/24/08 by bdesmet in News