When I started my career in network management many years ago, my primary focus with file sharing and database applications was to make sure that they had enough disk space to grow. This basic level ...

The history of database management extends even further back than does the term "database." In the mid-1960s, several technologists and technology companies were working on file management and file ...

In a distributed database, the data systems are held in different physical locations but can be accessed by all computers on a system. Processing is also shared among the many nodes—a database ...