While I am a general Linux admin, I have never administered or used PostgreSQL, although I do admin a few MySQL instances. I have just been told that a system currently hosted on SQL Server 2008 ...

High Availability and Backups High availability is a solved problem if you run PostgreSQL or MySQL in a cloud service like Azure Database or Amazon RDS. While clustering SQL Server or building an ...

PostgreSQL writing is optimized through several features: MySQL supports the SQL:2003 standard, and includes features ... as both primary and replica), or multisource (a single replica server collects ...

“Every DBMS has proprietary things such as SQL extensions ... on ensuring that MySQL is the No. 1 database for online applications than replacing the traditional client/server database.

I am checking a VB/DAO/Jet system, and have been tasked to make recommendations and feasibility cost estimates on it. The first recommendation would be to migrate DBMS, to one of the four stated ...

The most popular are old standards such as Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as relative newcomers like MongoDB and Redis. (PostgreSQL has been around forever but has only recently ...

Also, I use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my examples, because that's what I have installed, and because I like the improvements MariaDB includes in both the command-line client and in the database ...