IBM today announced a deal to acquire Informix Corp.’s database business for $1 billion in cash, ending eight months of speculation about the fate of the troubled Informix operations and potentially ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. debuted a collection of new features at its re:Invent event today that will make it easier for enterprises to run database environments on its cloud. There’s a growing trend ...

Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database caters to organizations with multinational operations and complex data-sovereignty needs. Oracle recently announced significant updates to its ...

Database Administrator vs. Database Architect: What’s the Difference? Your email has been sent A database admin is responsible for the operation of databases, whereas a database architect manages the ...

Since the term’s inception in the late 2000s, “DevOps” is by far the most common approach to product development. During the last 15 years, DevOps processes have evolved to new speeds and scales, with ...

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about autonomous databases, which offer the promise of keeping database systems stable and performant while alleviating much of the tuning and configuration ...

Meeting up with seasoned database security and IT operations teams always keeps me on my toes. The RSA Conference is one such event where I get to meet people who have been doing database security far ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

Asynchronous programming helps you to improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your application. In this article we will explore the basics of asynchronous programming and write code to ...