Database Architects

using a database from within an application requires language bindings, database drivers, etc., Support  a large range of languages is requi...

What drives me nuts about SQL is the type system, or rather, the lack of well specified type inference . In principle, SQL is a strongly typ...

The CHAR(n) data type is one of the more bizarre features of SQL. It is supposed to represent a fixed-length string, but as we will see in a...

I recently learned about Type Providers in F# which (among other things) allow you to import the result schema of database queries into you...

Experimentally validating (or falsifying) a theory is one of the fundamental aspects of science. As such I have always put a lot of emphasi...

My kick-off blog entry for Database Architects contained the first announcement of a product my friends over at the Vectorwise group of Acti...

The LDBC Social Network Benchmark The Linked Data Benchmark Council  is a new benchmarking organization for RDF and graph data managemen...