Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you’re building applications with it more complex questions emerge. Is it better to store data using this schema or that one? Should I break this into two documents or store it all as one? How can I make this faster? The advice in this book should help you answer these...
SQL Server 2008 is Microsoft’s latest data platform providing data management and analytical solutions for the enterprise. The platform is trusted, ensures business continuity, and is more predictable and more scalable than ever before. Although similar to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 offers a tremendous number of new features and...
Over the years, Exchange Server has become a complicated messaging solution that many
organizations rely on. Many companies have not upgraded to Exchange Server 2007 and
are still using Exchange Server 2003. With the release of Exchange Server 2010, they are
now contemplating upgrading to take advantage of this new version’s...
We wrote this book to serve the needs of not just the MySQL application developer but also the MySQL database administrator. We assume that you are already relatively experienced with MySQL. We also assume some experience with general system administration, networking, and Unix-like operating systems.
You are about to embark on a fantastic journey! System Center 2012 Configuration
Manager is an exciting, new version of the Configuration Manager product line. While
each release of Configuration Manager, or the predecessor product—Systems Management
Server—has been a great improvement over the previous version, we...
And then there was light – a lightweight database! How often have we all wanted some
database that was "just a data store"? Sure, you can use it in many complex ways but in
the end, it's just a plain simple data store. Welcome MongoDB!
And then there was light – a lightweight language that...
PHP and CouchDB Web Development will teach you the fundamentals of combining CouchDB and PHP to create a full application from conception to deployment. This book will direct you in developing a basic social network, while guiding you through some of the common pitfalls that are frequently associated with NoSQL databases.
PostgreSQL is an open source relational database management system that began as a
University of California, Berkeley project. It was originally under the BSD license, but
is now called the PostgreSQL License (TPL). For all intents and purposes, it’s BSD
licensed. It has a long history, almost dating back to the beginning of...
The SQL Server product has been around since the late 1980s. Back then, Microsoft worked together with Sybase to create a database on the OS/2 platform. Shortly after this effort was completed, Microsoft realized it wanted to tightly couple SQL Server with Windows. By 1993, Microsoft had released Windows NT 3.1, and with it came the option of...
Once every decade or so, a technology comes along that is so revolutionary that it
fundamentally alters the way we approach everything we do. The world itself has
changed. As I think back to 1995 when I first started developing Internet applications,
our data needs were relatively simple. For the next 10 years,...
I never got a chance to meet the inventors of Notes®, but these guys were true visionaries. Their
concepts and ideas of 20 years ago still feed today’s buzz. They invented a robust “NO SQL” data
store, provided a social platform with collaboration features, and made the deployment and replication
of applications...
Every new version of SQL Server brings with it new tools and features for database administrators (DBAs), developers, and architects, for them to be able to provide an effective solution for the end users in a simpler and more efficient manner. The terms effective and efficiency can be measured in a technical perspective as High Availability...
