Using the Transact SQL ALTER DATABASE statement to shrink the transaction log file Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and click Query Analyzer to open the Query Analyzer window.

The introduction of increased transactional capability into non-relational databases makes sense-in the same way that providing SQL layers on top of Hadoop and many other non-relational stores makes ...

Modern relational databases need to handle multiple transactions simultaneously (via a process known as Online Transaction Processing – OLTP).

These SQL relational databases offer both horizontal scalability and support for ACID transactions—some on a global scale ...

It may seem strange to see MongoDB expanding the very features of the relational databases that it originally rejected. In the last few releases, we've seen implementation of joins, strict schemas, ...

You can order up a powerful, scalable Oracle database tuned for transaction processing that's ready to use in minutes.

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...