Four key considerations to keep in mind when you need a database designed for analytical queries of vast quantities of time series data. SQL often struggles when it comes to managing massive amounts ...

Hi<BR><BR>I am try to compare a VARCHAR field that stores a date as:<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> to_char(DateTimeField, 'MM-DD-YYYY') <> to_char(to_date ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

Hive's SQL-like query language and vastly improved speed on huge data sets make it the perfect partner for an enterprise data warehouse Apache Hive is a tool built on top of Hadoop for analyzing large ...