You don't have to be a professional database administrator to manage and manipulate information efficiently -- anyone can create a spreadsheet in Excel or on Google Drive and use it to organize data.

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Database administrators use software to store and organize data, such as financial information and customer shipping records. They make sure that data are available to users and are secure from ...

Lead Database Developers serve as technical team leaders for database-centric software development projects. Evaluate your next database developer hire with the help of this sample job description.

Relational databases are really great for storing and retrieving data, but sometimes, they aren't quite up to the task. Joe Celko, whose SQL for Smarties books are among my favorites, dedicated an ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

The first installment of this TechRepublic series focused on C# developer interview questions. It generated a lively discussion on the merits of such questions and the different approaches to ...

Oracle is adding dedicated cloud instances for its Oracle Autonomous Database as well as low-code developer tools. The updates land as Oracle is seeing more enterprise customers trial the Autonomous ...

“The right tool for the right job.” If such wisdom holds true anywhere, it certainly holds true with the choice of database a developer picks for a given application. Document databases, one of the ...