Since the 1990s, organisations have gathered, processed and analysed business information in data warehouses. The term “data warehouse” was introduced to the IT mainstream by American computer ...

It’s rare in the world of software to see a single architecture dominate as comprehensively as the relational database model. The relational database (RDBMS)—actually a hybrid of Codd’s relational ...

What happens when data warehouses, the large data repositories companies have built and managed for years, are combined with autonomous capabilities of the future? Oracle’s new Autonomous Data ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...