Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

If you’d asked an IT professional whether object storage is any good for databases, the answer over most of the past decade or so would have been a resounding “no”. The response would have been pretty ...

In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced the new Schema object. This allowed us to de-couple the owner from the name of the object. You see, in previous releases the naming convention for a database ...

For IT professionals used to working with traditional file systems for their entire careers, object-based storage is like a whole new dimension they never knew existed. The concept of object storage ...