Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to catch ...

OCZ Technology has started offering to beta testers is ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a card that uses solid state drive (SSD) storage to improve the performance of SQL Server databases. For OCZ, the ZD-XL ...

Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

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Database applications have vastly improved in recent years, but despite our best efforts, they can still feel frustratingly slow. A report that is supposed to take minutes might instead (for unknown ...

The aim is to improve the performance of Spark SQL libraries and DataFrame operations. Level 2 compiles whole queries rather than simply query stages, an optimization that enables such operations like ...

I have a cloud hosted (Rackspace) Windows server running SQL 2008 R2 Express, which is supposedly limited to using 1 GB of RAM. Performance has not been what we wanted, so we had Rackspace deploy for ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

A common task that all database and system administrators face is patching systems. Patching your systems is very important -- first and foremost, security fixes are included in patches. Patches also ...

Some of the updates could help enterprises increase the accuracy of AI applications and agents, and increase developer productivity with AI. Google Cloud has introduced new updates to its ...