Out of all the programming languages you need to learn in the IT industry, SQL is one of the most important. SQL is so integral to modern big data access and organization processes that it’s never a ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

IT organizations are always chasing better performance. This involves monitoring, tuning, and improving all aspects of the IT infrastructure, encompassing servers, networks, applications, desktops, ...

To make productive use of the ever-growing volumes of data, businesses and organizations need the right database systems to manage all that data and make it available for transactional and analytical ...

How to quickly back up and restore a database with phpMyAdmin Your email has been sent If a web-based GUI is better suited to your admin skills, Jack Wallen wants to show you how to back up and ...

Behind the scenes: A day in the life of a database administrator Your email has been sent Here's a look at how one database administrator collaborates with his coworkers, helping analyze data, ...