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Large enterprise databases that form the backbone of business are not going to move out to a cloud computing platform any time soon, but more and more data will be processed in and originate the cloud and data professionals need to understand how to work with data in the cloud. Non Transactional Data Processing The delay between transactions ...

In future, more and more solutions will have data that is not stored directly in a SQL database but rather in cloud EAV (Entity Attribute Value) data stores, caches, client storage, document databases and so on.  Usually it is the existing DBA’s and other SQL biased database experts that are the custodians of corporate data and, in general, ...

By scratching deep enough into available material on SQL Data Services (SDS) you will uncover the limitations of the platform that make it very difficult to scale. It does not scale upwards because of the size limitation of the instance and it does not scale outwards because the SQL model does not handle partitions very well. The data has been ...

In order to build massively scalable databases you, as an architect, will have to toss out data consistency. The knee-jerk reaction is that consistency cannot and should not be compromised but the reality is that real-time consistency is less important than you may think. It requires a bit of effort, more talking to users and re-engineering of ...