Let's break down when it's ideal to use the NOLOCK hint and when you should never use it. As a consultant, I work on wide swaths of database systems, which means I get to see many, many SQL statements ...

Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

It may seem strange to see MongoDB expanding the very features of the relational databases that it originally rejected. In the last few releases, we've seen implementation of joins, strict schemas, ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help ...