Query compilation and execution form the critical backbone of database systems, where high-level queries are translated into efficient low-level machine code and then executed to retrieve data.

A new generation of graph databases has taken hold, and a generation of query languages has arrived alongside them. The assorted graph database query languages include the likes of Gremlin, Cypher, ...

The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now Fifty years ago, relational databases were neither ubiquitous nor standardized.

Database applications serve a vital role in today’s information world, providing structured storage, access, and retrieval of organizational data. This course will explore the principles and practices ...

Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...

Software developers today have more options open to them. They have tools and services that can help them build new applications quickly, then launch those services to customers globally, and then ...

One way to slow down your application is to make multiple trips to the database. Here's a way to cut those trips in half (at least) and it has to do with the EntityFramework.Extended library. In an ...

When I started writing SQL, I was never worried about security; I was worried that I would write a bad query that would crash the database. And it was really easy to write SQL that would consume 100 ...