Robert Leonard, Opto 22 (top left), David McCarthy, TriCore (center), Travis Cox, Inductive Automation (top right), Roger Herrscher, Opto 22 (bottom left), Chirayu Shah, Rockwell Automation (bottom ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday announced new tools bringing more automation to database management. The new Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS automatically can find and fix database issues in Amazon Aurora ...

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If you’re one of those database managers who thinks Oracle Corp. must pride itself on making its database overly complicated and difficult to manage, Oracle Database 10g will be a refreshing change.

The information below serves as a brief primer to help you better understand the database terms you’ll most often encounter. Relational Databases. Relational databases became the database of choice ...