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Recommended methodologies for refactoring a large ISAM based DB structure to a RDBMS?

I'm meeting quite a challenge. We have an old grown software with mostly Delphi applications, and an underlying ISAM database server (ADS)1, used with a lot of free tables and manually programmed ...
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Delphi 7 using RAM for database

I have an existing database app written in D7 with apollo databases. The client has given me a fast desktop with 24gb ram Can I somehow load the database files into ram to speed up processing? With ...
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Scalability: How does splitting a database table work on different replicated SQL Servers?

I would like to know more about the general concepts behind dividing data of a database into different servers. For example, suppose I have a SQL Server database which has a massive table. Assume one ...
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Converting mysql and SQLServer tables quickly in an update utility

The requirements are to take an existing list of identical tables (AAA0001 - AAA9999) which generally don't meed our current requirements and need to be swapped out with three tables (XXX0001-XXX999, ...
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What is needed to deploy an application that uses Microsoft's new LocalDB?

I'd like to know what Microsoft components need to be installed for this new LocalDB to run on a users machine. Now in CTP3: SQL Server Express LocalDB LocalDB is a new lightweight deployment ...
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