SQLAuthority News – Sharding or No Sharding of Database – Working on my Weekend Project

Recently I came across situation where database sharding was once again a suggested solution by architectures. Everytime I hear the word sharding I remember my earlier article about NuoDB on Shard No More – An Innovative Look at Distributed Peer-to-peer SQL Database. Sharding requires developers to think about things like rollbacks, constraints,…
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SQL SERVER – Discussion – Scale-up vs Scale-out Architectures

Note: NuoDB is a complete re-think of relational databases with innovative support for the Cloud’s dynamic, asynchronous nature. Download NuoDB to experience the Scaling Out scenario discussed in this blog post. Scaling Up There are many different ways of scaling SQL Server to accommodate more transactions and throughput. The general scale-up approach includes:…
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