Tables within a database management system (DBMS) need primary keys and defined indexes in order for the DBMS to have the opportunity to provide good query performance. Without indexing, the worst ...

After 14 years measuring the world's most powerful servers, the TPC-C speed test is being supplanted by a new benchmark. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Manifold has shipped Radian® Studio, a massively parallel data engineering environment for DBMS and GIS that anyone can afford. Radian automatically runs on thousands of GPU cores plus all CPU cores ...

DUBLIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sybase iAnywhere today announced it is further strengthening its database management portfolio with the release of Advantage Database Server™ 9. The updated features ...

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Hackers target poorly secured Microsoft SQL and MySQL database servers to deploy the Gh0stCringe remote access trojans on vulnerable devices. Gh0stCringe, aka CirenegRAT, is a variant of Gh0st RAT ...

Ransomware affects databases in very specific ways. Joey describes the mechanics of a SQL Server ransomware attack, what DBAs can do to protect their systems, and what security measures they should be ...

After the ransacking of MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, CouchDB, and Cassandra servers, attackers are now hijacking hundreds of MySQL databases, deleting their content, and leaving a ransom note ...

The CONNECTION= LIBNAME option allows you to specify how many connections are executed when the library is used and which operations on tables are shared within a connection. By default, the value is ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...