Denormalization helps to address a fundamental fact in databases: slow read and join operations. Imagine a fruit seller has two daily lists: one of in-stock fruit and another with the market prices of ...

It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...