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database

a COMPUTER software package which enables data to be created and stored, to be retrieved and analysed later. Databases can, for example, store names and addresses of potential or past customers which can be used to produce mailing lists for SALES PROMOTIONS.

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In other words, given a database instance I, Q(I) is an n-ary relation instance, the answer to the query.

Formal query languages for secure relational databases

This was not possible earlier as the same database instance was used by all departments and they had to wait for their turn.

Lakshmi Vilas Bank Goes Virtual

Finally, while most workloads can be supported with a single database instance, some workloads require multiple database instances due to increased scalability requirements (e.g., lots of data or lots of concurrent reads and writes).

Why We Need Databases With Multiple, Purpose-Built Storage Engines

We can then update any database instance to the latest master by running the change log of all the changes since we copied the master to produce the older database instance.

Evolutionary database design

Additional scope for block size tuning is also provided by Oracle 9i, which allows mixed block sizes in the same database instance. All of the decisions made about de-normalising and over-normalising in a separate warehouse schema which are taken to optimise query performance and allow an efficient roll out of historical data, are likely to remain valid for a co-resident scheme.

Defying conventional wisdom - an alternative perspective on data warehousing. (Defying Conventional Wisdom)

You can add memory, move to a database instance with higher CPU capacity, pay for provisioned input/output operations per second (IOPS), or move to solid-state disk storage (SSD).

The correlation between performance and costs

During this process, it's not uncommon to also cloudify some components of a workload, using a CDN, as explained before, or using a database as a service (DBaaS) instead of a full database instance on a dedicated cloud server.