Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

Distributed SQL is an evolution of the database for cloud native, distributed transactions. It can implement a standard SQL interface, ease operational complexity of scale, is geo-replicated, always ...

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TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

The relational database management system (RDBMS) held a stranglehold on enterprise data management from the mid-1980s through to the mid-2000s. For 25 years the question was never “should I use a ...