Newsletter Archive: 2012
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Users Can Now Run ASP.NET On Amazon RDS Online retail giant Amazon just announced a new update which allows users to run Microsoft's database and web programming platform ASP.NET, on its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Date: 2012-05-09 Looking At How Twitter Uses MySQL MySQL is one of, if not, the best database management systems. It's even better because it's open source which allows anybody to make changes to it as they see fit for their own needs. Date: 2012-04-12 Oracle Finds Itself Facing A New Challenger: SAP April 10th, 2012 will be an interesting day. According to an SAP release, that is the day it will announce it's plans to compete directly with Oracle, claiming they will "become a leading database vendor." Date: 2012-03-23 Verizon Study Shows Database Insecurity — McAfee Seeks to Protect Nearly every business has shifted away from terrifyingly large groupings of spreadsheets in favor of more organized and dynamic databases. Date: 2012-03-01 Table Locking for Dummies (MySQL) Writing a multi-threaded program is hard enough to do without having to worry about data concurrency in your database. Lucky for us, MySQL has the methods necessary to help us keep our data current built in. Date: 2012-02-15 Optimizing MySQL: The Slow Query Log I prescribe to the slow and steady approach in life. It's a proven methodology in becoming succesful (just ask the Tortoise and/or the Hare). However, slow and steady is typically not acceptable in data computation, and SQL is no different. Date: 2012-01-31 The Cost of NoSQL NoSQL solutions are now vital to many applications. When evaluating the use of NoSQL in new projects or upgrades to existing projects, project managers should take close examination of the potentially hidden costs of NoSQL. Date: 2012-01-04 |