A Certain Tendency Of The Database Community —
“We posit that striving for distributed systems that provide ‘single system image’ semantics is fundamentally flawed and at odds with how systems operate in the physical world.”
Have you got SQL fingers? — Watch these free SQL Prompt tips videos for SQL writing hints from top SQL Server MVPs. SQL Prompt is the SQL code productivity add-in for SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio. Find out how easily you can write SQL.
gpdb: Pivotal Greenplum Database —
Greenplum, a massively parallel processing database, is one of many databases that started with Postgres then built on top of it. It’s now fully open source.
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Top 10 Most Common T-SQL Database Scripts —
What are the scripts that a working DBA uses so often that they become part of the ‘muscle memory’? Grant Fritchey asked the question on the forums of SQL Server Central.
Gartner placed EnterpriseDB in the Leaders Quadrant for a 2nd year — Gartner placed EnterpriseDB in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2nd year running, alongside the market’s largest commercial giants. Find out more about Gartner’s insights and recommendations by downloading Gartner's The State of Open-Source RDBMS, 2015.
