Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run. When I was tasked with modernizing our enterprise document ...

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Maintaining strong consistency and throughput in distributed NoSQL systems is very important these days, but often impossible to achieve at the same time. Consistency problems in distributed systems ...

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It's important to plan for security before you configure your replication topology. This tutorial shows you how to better secure a replication topology. It also shows you how to configure distribution ...

Ever wondered how to create multiple copies of your SQL database and keep them synchronized? That's where SQL Database replication comes in! This powerful feature allows you to ensure data consistency ...

> If you want to create an AD FS farm and use SQL Server to store your configuration data, you can use SQL Server 2008 or higher. If you are using SQL Server as your AD FS configuration database, you ...

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...

This article seeks to point the distinctions between push and pull replication mechanisms within SQL Server 2022, pivotal components for the dissemination and synchronization of data across multiple ...

The latest version has reached general availability a few months after the release of v18.4. It brings a bunch of new features and general bug fixes, along with more specific improvements. In November ...