While database testing is, in many ways, similar to other traditional application testing procedures, teams must confirm that they perform database tests frequently and thoroughly throughout the ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

Active Database Software announced the release of a new version of Active Query Builder, a component for building SQL queries, which significantly improves the view and performance of metadata when ...

If I have an application that uses a database as its data store (and ultimate source of truth) that brings some obvious issues when developing tests: In the applications, objects should ONLY be ...

Kinetica, a relational database provider for online analytical processing (OLAP) and real-time analytics, is harnessing the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to let developers use natural language processing ...

Database reliability extends beyond the ACID tests that most software professionals know. Database testing is divided into functional testing, ACID validation and performance testing. Functional tests ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business websites ...

In many environments, there is a quiet compromise that gets made every day. It rarely shows up in project plans or architecture diagrams. No one formally approves it. But it happens, nonetheless.