Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

Distributed SQL is an evolution of the database for cloud native, distributed transactions. It can implement a standard SQL interface, ease operational complexity of scale, is geo-replicated, always ...

The advantage of using one connection for multiple statements is that it reduces the overhead of establishing multiple connections, while allowing multiple statements to access the database. The ...

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

During my decades as a database application developer, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would ever have access to a transactional, planet-scale, distributed database, much less that I ...

The relational database management system (RDBMS) held a stranglehold on enterprise data management from the mid-1980s through to the mid-2000s. For 25 years the question was never “should I use a ...