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Schooner Information Technology Strengthens Leadership Team with Strategic Hires

8 February 2012, 6:00 am

Schooner Information Technology, Inc., which develops and markets high-availability high-performance SQL database software for mission-critical applications, today announced two new appointments that will further advance the company’s market and product leadership.

Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review

8 February 2012, 4:27 am

The NoSQL movement has spawned a slew of alternative data stores, all of which attempt to fill voids left by traditional relational database implementations. But while it's easy to fit the various relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and so on) under a single categorical umbrella, the NoSQL world is much more diverse, and the NoSQL label is too general. NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and ...

How to Secure your SQL Azure Application

3 February 2012, 10:37 am

Microsoft’s database offering on its cloud computing platform, SQL Azure , offers cost-effective, easily scalable, highly available database functionality with almost no management overhead.

What is SQL

Networked applications are becoming increasingly numerous and versatile. In many cases, the basic scheme of operation is a series of scripts that drive the behavior of a database. Due to the diversity of languages and existing databases, how to communicate with each other and would be really complicated to arrange, if not for the existence of standards that allows us to perform the basic operations una universal form.

It is exactly what this is about the Structured Query Language ()SQL that is no more than a standard language for communicating with the database. We speak therefore of a standard language that allows us to work with any language (ASP or PHP) in combination with any type of database (MS Access, SQL Server, MySQL ..).

Being a standard does not mean that it is identical for each database. In practice, certain databases implement specific functions that need not necessarily work in others. Apart from this universality, SQL has two other features much appreciated. On one hand, is extremely powerfil and versatile, for another, its accessible to learn.

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