The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. One of the more significant is that it has led to the widespread use ...

Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...

Any data that does not fall into the traditional field structure (alpha, numeric, dates) of a relational DBMS. Examples of complex data types are bills of materials, word processing documents, maps, ...

Q. How do I copy the current object (record) in WinForms? My users want to use an existing record as the starting point for new records and sometimes copy records between forms. The problem is that ...