The opportunity and challenge of Big Data from new platforms such as Hadoop is that it opens a new range of analytics. On one hand, Big Data analytics have updated and revived programmatic access to ...

RIGHT JOIN (or RIGHT OUTER JOIN): It’s the opposite of a LEFT JOIN. It keeps all rows from the right table and matches from the left. Less common than LEFT JOIN, but good to know it exists.

As the co-creator of Structured Query Language (SQL), Don Chamberlin knows a thing or two about pulling data out of relational databases. So when he spoke at the user conference for NoSQL database ...

On and off, over the years, I have followed and written about the SQL-on-Hadoop saga. The adventure started with Apache Hive, which originally provided a SQL layer on top of MapReduce, bringing new ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Databases are the place where many different client data ...

Relational databases (SQL) have been used for decades by nearly every type of business around the world. The technology is reliable, based on stable standards, and has been mature for more than 20 ...

If you start "thinking in LINQ" you'll get more done with less code, and what you write will be simpler than using SQL. Switching to LINQ and the Entity Framework (EF) means that code you'll write for ...