Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

Database systems are the backbone of contemporary data-driven applications, underpinning industries ranging from finance to scientific research. As data volumes surge and complexity increases, robust ...

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This is as true for data as it is for art. With the advent of big data, there is a tremendous need to manage, interpret and communicate it effectively – because ...

INTRODUCTION - Over the past few decades, the importance of data has grown dramatically. Deemed “the new oil”1 in 2006, today data ...

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Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

Last week I jumped from the starting point of the newest U.S. anti-trust action against Google into a discussion about the legal and economic status of data. I would like to carry the discussion of ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison first introduced the company’s autonomous database at Oracle Open World last year. The company later launched an autonomous data warehouse. Today, it ...