The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

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There has been a lot of interest lately in NoSQL databases and, of course, many of us have strong backgrounds and experience in traditional relational "SQL" databases. For application developers this ...

Proper database backup is essential because of the importance of the data they contain, so understanding how the work is also a must. Databases, also referred to as structured data, are an essential ...