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 ...

If there was just one aspect of relational databases that led to the explosion of non-relational alternatives over the last 10 years, it was the ACID transaction model. ACID transactions were ...

Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

Soon after IBM introduced modern mainframes, it became apparent that the mainframe needed to interact with human operators and perform general business processing in real time. This required a ...

Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data. Online transaction ...

Bank and credit union marketers have a tough job, surrounded by a fluid macroeconomic environment that forces them to be both strategically proactive and reactive. Their responsibility entails a ...

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) sweeping new rule on cross-border data transactions is set to take effect in substantial part next month, with broad implications for companies that transfer U.S ...