The engines at the heart of relational database engines are broken, and Deep Information Sciences, which is uncloaking from stealth mode today, thinks it has come up with a way to fix them. The upshot ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...