Let’s examine a simple example on how to configure master-slave replication on MongoDB in the Cloud!

Here's a 45-minute presentation on Polyglot Persistence from NoSQL Matters presented by Ralf Engelschall.

Sharding is generally done for one or both of two reasons: To increase I/O bandwidth, and to partition in-memory data for more efficient usage of distributed caching

Under normal operation, SQL Server Compact keeps all pending disk writes in memory, and flushes them to disk at least every 10 seconds. But you may want to flush to disk immediately under certain circumstances, and this weeks code snippet demonstrates how to do just that.

Global Transactions Identifiers are one of the new features regarding replication in MySQL 5.6. They open up a lot of opportunities to make the life of DBAs much easier when having to maintain servers under a specific replication topology.

Programmers generally recognize that SQL can be optimized: experts often rewrite queries to take only a fraction of the time of their originals. It's not just *queries*, though: database writes deserve attention along with reads. Be on the lookout for ways to improve updates and inserts, along with retrievals.

The deployment regions are paired for geo-redundancy and in Australia are located in the New South Wales and Victoria sub-regions.

UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc. as well a standard Key/Value store similar to BerkeleyDB, LevelDB, etc.

Many well-publicized big-data stories are like Barbie dolls. They’re great sources of inspiration, but you can’t realistically model your own path to success on that example.

What are the requirements to NoSQL, Graph Databases exist in Enterprises? I give my point of view on my post!

In this article, I will show you how to deploy Neo4J into Azure VMs in minutes. No coding, no Visual Studio, just point-click deployment for free.

In this article, I will show you how to deploy Neo4J into Azure VMs in minutes. No coding, no Visual Studio, just point-click deployment for free.

This is a blog post by NoSQL database company FoundationDB which shows a live demo cluster running the database software and a test client being put through some nasty fault scenarios such as machine power failures, network partitions, and total cluster power loss.

Want to learn more about NuoDB? Check out this Webinar to learn more about our new Dev Center, product improvements, and Microsoft integration.

Using MySQL 5.6 Performance Schema to Troubleshoot Typical Workload BottlenecksNext Friday, May 31 at 10 a.m. Pacific, I’ll present Percona’s next webinar, “SQL Query Patterns, Optimized.”

ClrMd is a newly released diagnostic library that wraps the CLR’s undocumented data access interfaces (a.k.a. “DAC”) in a friendly managed API.

Only tutorial you need on excel VLOOKUP as database manager - Complete with examples and screenshots.

Data scientist Monica Rogati discusses data scaling at LinkedIn and reflects on the evolving role of the data scientist.

I’ve been playing around with modelling a product taxonomy and one thing that I wanted to do was find out the full path where a product sits under the tree.

In this post, I have explained how DataTable from C# is passed to a stored procedure in Sql Server.

New Date and Time Functions in SQL Server 2012

Alex Gorbachev, CTO of Pythian (client) speaks with Courtney Reagan on CNBC's "Big Data Download" on the revenue pitfalls of website outages and slow site loading speeds. Mr. Gorbachev also uses real-world examples to explain the significance of choosing a quality online data storage company.