After 14 years measuring the world's most powerful servers, the TPC-C speed test is being supplanted by a new benchmark. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Oracle and Microsoft have signed a deal that will see Oracle colocate its Exadata database-optimized server and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data centers. By doing so, the companies ...

Setting up a memory database integrated with an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server can significantly enhance how you manage and retrieve data. By using OpenAI’s file store and vector database ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine’s system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have ...

A computer in a network that is dedicated to database storage and retrieval. It holds the database management system (see DBMS) and the databases. Upon requests from the client machines, it searches ...

A sophisticated attack campaign codenamed RE#TURGENCE by researchers has been discovered infiltrating Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) database servers across the United States, European Union, and Latin America ...

At least one Chinese hacking crew is currently scanning the internet for Windows servers that are running MySQL databases so they can infect these systems with the GandCrab ransomware. These attacks ...