At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi ...

Let's talk about database application benchmarking. This is a skill set which, in my opinion, is one of the major differentiators between a journeyman-level DBA and a true master of the trade. In this ...

COMP_SCI 339: Intro to Databases VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites Students must have completed COMP_SCI 214 & (COMP_SCI 213 or COMP_ENG 205), or be CS Grad students (MS or PhD) in ...

When it comes to slick, highly functional sites, web designers get most of the credit. But they couldn't do what they do without the programmers, the unsung heroes of the web. If you're someone who ...

Get an overview of JDBC's architecture, then learn how to connect to a database and handle SQL queries and responses with PreparedStatements, transactions, connection pooling, and more.

First, the database is available in two flavors; second, various flavors of SQL dialects can be used, each carrying its own implications. Let's first look at the architecture issue and then move on to ...