SQL

MongoDB's SQL-to-NoSQL converter uses AI to smash the language barrier

Tell it what you want to do, and it spits out the relevant code

Databases27 Sep 2023 | 7

If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates

Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert

Databases11 May 2023 | 4

Microsoft adds silicon muscle into latest Azure SQL database configs

Intel's 'Ice Lake' and AMD's 'Milan' chips bump up speeds and feeds

Databases01 Dec 2022 |

Fivetran slammed for dropping SQL support. CEO: 'Blame me for this'

Updated Ubiquitous database language support continued through third-party tool, users told

Databases07 Oct 2022 | 11

Loads of PostgreSQL systems are sitting on the internet without SSL encryption

They probably shouldn't be connected in the first place, says database expert

Research07 Oct 2022 | 20

Cockroach Labs CTO: Google became too comfortable, I wasn't being challenged

Interview Peter Mattis on starting a multibillion-dollar company as serverless database hits GA

Databases29 Sep 2022 | 4

SQL Server admins warned about Fargo ransomware

From a city in North Dakota with a crime problem to file-scrambling nasty

Security26 Sep 2022 | 6

Teradata takes on cloud-native rivals with data lakes, MLOps

Reworked use of object storage changes footing with competitors but will need to convince devs

Databases30 Aug 2022 |

Python tops programming love list – but if you want a job, learn SQL

Don't ask us how this is decided, it probably involved a lot of Perl

Software24 Aug 2022 | 97

NoSQL player Aerospike links up with Starburst for SQL-based access to edge data

'We’re not necessarily replacing Snowflake' is an interesting choice of words

Databases15 Jun 2022 |

Beware the fury of a database developer torn from tables and SQL

Who, Me? Not so much process privilege rings, more circles of hell

Databases23 May 2022 | 176

Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven adds $1bn to valuation

Demand for PostgreSQL and Kafka driving interest in cloud service, CEO tells The Register

Databases13 May 2022 | 3

MySQL a 'pretty poor database' says departing Oracle engineer

Updated PostgreSQL a better option for open source RDBMS, he claims

Databases06 Dec 2021 | 156

Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS

Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden

Databases24 Sep 2021 | 10

Rockset hopes to lessen streaming analytics time-suck by having SQL transform live data

Could help boost deployment times, says analyst

Databases27 Aug 2021 | 1

El Reg talks to Azure Data veep as Microsoft flicks the switch on Azure Arc for SQL Managed Instances

Interview Longevity, PostgreSQL, and 'the default relational database of choice'

SaaS11 Aug 2021 | 10

HPE gobbles up Ampool to add SQL grunt to Ezmeral

Acquisition will bring query processing for data sources

Storage09 Jul 2021 |

10+ users can lead to washout: Data lakes struggle with SQL concurrency, says Gartner

We're working on it, Spark backer Databricks declares

Storage24 May 2021 | 7

Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS

But beware lock-in-as-a-service, consultant warns

Databases07 May 2021 |

Aerospike adds set indexing and SQL expressions to make the distributed NoSQL database more ML-friendly

New Spark 3.0 connector will appeal to users too, analyst says

Databases05 May 2021 |

SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses

Python still welcome, though

SaaS18 Mar 2021 | 33

MariaDB courts Microsoft Power BI users with a taste of its query adapter

Could this be another sign of more openness from Redmond?

Software16 Dec 2020 |

Buggy behavior bites .NET SqlClient for unlucky Linux users

.NET devs have been struggling to deal with errors affecting non-Windows SqlClients under heavy load

Software11 Dec 2020 | 9

Suits you serverless! Google offers SQL database porting service tailor-made for its cloud

Just don't call it a migration

SaaS13 Nov 2020 | 5

Databricks: Ugh, just look at that messy data lake environment. Squints. You know... we could sort that out with a sweet shot of SQL

Data-wrangler previews another lakehouse concept tool

Databases13 Nov 2020 |

Join us in the cloud, breathes Microsoft as it gifts Azure SQL Managed Instance customers a surprise horsepower boost

Ignite And if you don't like it, managed instances maybe aren't for you

SaaS24 Sep 2020 |

Have I Been Pwned breach report email pwned entire firm's helldesk ticket system

That's one way of making people check for updates

Security04 Jun 2020 | 77

Chicago: Why I just grin like a dork... It's my kind of Bork

Bork!Bork!Bork! Even the bus shelters of the windy city cannot escape the borkage

Bootnotes22 May 2020 | 46

The Register calls for aid, and Microsoft's Rohan Kumar will answer... our questions about SQL Edge and Azure Synapse

Build Slimming down SQL and living on the Edge

Software21 May 2020 | 4

DB or not DB: Open-sourcer Percona pushes out plethora of SQL and NoSQL tweaks in bid to win over suits

Hopes to lure business types to shiny platform

Databases19 May 2020 |

Let's slip into something a bit more relational: SQL database crowd strikes back with brace of cloudy releases

And you thought this was purely a NoSQL release this week?

Software14 May 2020 | 1

Cyberscum target Microsoft SQL Server boxen – and some careless sysadmins were reinfected after cleaning it out

Two-year campaign observed by Guardicore

Security01 Apr 2020 | 1

I'm the queen of Gibraltar and will never get a traffic ticket... just two of the things anyone could have written into country's laws thanks to unsanitised SQL input vuln

Exclusive Run sqlmap, edit online statutes, gain immunity for life?

Security07 Jan 2020 | 34

Microsoft slaps the Edge name on SQL, unveils the HoloLens 2 Development Edition

Got $3,500 to spare? No? How about $99 a month instead?

Devops02 May 2019 | 53

Typescript, PostgreSQL and Visual Studio Code all get slathered with a little Microsoft lovin'

Roundup There's also another Windows 10 Insider build out

Software28 Jan 2019 | 7

Microsoft hopes it has a sequel better than Godfather Part II: SQL Server 2019 previewed

Ignite Hadoop? Spark? Teradata? Oh my!

Software27 Sep 2018 | 19

Azure admins free to sync their teeth into database-spreader tool

Harmonise with on-premises SQL for when, you know, the cloud falls out of the sky

SaaS20 Jun 2018 | 4

You are not a beautiful and unique Snowflake which just picked up another hundred mill

But the cloud data warehouse startup is bracing itself for IPO

On-Prem08 May 2017 | 1

A spanner in the works: Google's cloud database hits beta, gets prices

Ye canna' hand a man a grander (Cloud) Spanner

Databases15 Feb 2017 | 14

London-based Yahoo! hacker gets 11 years for SQLi mischief

He'll only serve two years, though

Legal23 Sep 2016 | 22

Bad news: MySQL can dish out root access to cunning miscreants

Updated Good news: Oracle sneaked some patches out

Security13 Sep 2016 | 30

Life imitates satire: Facebook touts zlib killer just like Silicon Valley's Pied Piper

New compression library and MySQL fork open-sourced

Software31 Aug 2016 | 20

A bad day for DBAs: MIT boffins are replacing you with a mere spreadsheet

Or at least a database so simple it looks and behaves like a spreadsheet

Databases12 Jul 2016 | 32

Oracle gives apps a ticket to ride on Sparc M7's SQL warp drives

Database giant opens up APIs to analytics hardware accelerators

Software08 Mar 2016 | 4

Microsoft has made SQL Server for Linux. Repeat, Microsoft has made SQL Server 2016 for Linux

Embrace, extend ... DROP?

OSes07 Mar 2016 | 182

This is why copy'n'paste should be banned from developers' IDEs

Line Break More mind-boggling code unfortunately encountered in the wild

Software10 Feb 2016 | 120

Scary RAM-gobbling bug in SQL Server 2014 exposed by Visual Studio online outage

Query-size predictor ran amok, grabbed nearly 4GB per login

Software09 Feb 2016 | 46

Say oops, UPSERT your head: PostgreSQL version 9.5 has landed

Row-level security, web app data integrity lead the list

Software07 Jan 2016 | 9

Google tries to spread the SQL cloud love

Here's some cash. Please come and use our beta

Channel11 Dec 2015 | 8

Reg Winter Lecture: Former Iraq hostage talks survival and tech

Reg Events That SQL background may be more useful than you think...

Software05 Nov 2015 | 3

So how does an SQL background help you survive 2.5 years as a hostage?

Reg events Peter Moore delivers final Reg lecture of 2015

Legal13 Oct 2015 | 7

Disk boxes, security tools, etc: What Amazon announced at its AWS shindig on Wednesday

Bezos's gang keeps the cloudy mob happy with new shininess

Databases08 Oct 2015 | 4

Using SQL techniques in NoSQL is OK, right? WRONG

Don't try and cut corners, or you'll end up in a twisty, tangly mess

Databases25 Aug 2015 | 43

Ex-Microsoft chief rolls elastic-SQL challenge to Amazon Redshift

Snowflake's Muglia hopes to storm the cloud

Channel24 Jun 2015 | 9

Old, forgotten, lonely? SQL Server 2016 will sling you into Azure

Ignite 2015 Microsoft on the verge of hybrid cloud, plus encryption, JSON and more

SaaS04 May 2015 | 9

Thank heavens for the silicon chip: A BRIEF history of data

Data Pair – Part 1 You have a pair of bones in Africa to thank for Larry Ellison

On-Prem21 Apr 2015 | 34