A few database administrators told me they wanted to know why database security is vertical and how they can fix it. True, database access controls are vertical. The basic construct of a database is a ...

Today, DBAs who have traditionally managed relational database systems such as Oracle and SQL Server are also managing companies’ "non-relational" databases. As platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra ...

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 ...