The primary key column is often set to auto-increment when constructing a SQL Server database. To achieve this, the IDENTITY property is enabled on the primary key column. The starting value and ...

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Race conditions can occur in a booking database when multiple users try to access and update shared data concurrently. Consider a simple booking database for a hotel, with the following tables: CREATE ...

This PostgreSQL extension provides a basic implementation of the Paxos algorithm in PL/pgSQL and basic table replication through Paxos. Warning: pg_paxos is in an early stage, consider it experimental ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...