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Syncsort and Vision Solutions are Combining to Create a Powerhouse Platform Centerbridge Partners, L.P., a private investment firm, has completed the $1.26 billion... Read More
IoT Security Solution Provider ZingBox Closes $22 Million in Series B Funding Round The new funding will be used by ZingBox to increase headcount in the next year to... Read More
Docker Container as a Service Platform Targets Hybrid IT Environments Including Mainframes Docker has announced the latest release of Docker Enterprise Edition (EE), a container... Read More
InfluxData Enhances Cloud Service with Stronger Visualization and Control InfluxData has updated InfluxCloud, its managed and hosted version of the InfluxData... Read More
IDERA Improves Process Modeling in Latest ER/Studio Release IDERA, a provider of database lifecycle management solutions, has released ER/Studio... Read More
New Cloud Services Extend Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Suite In an expansion of its Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud, Oracle has... Read More
Oracle Open Sources Database Programming Interface for C The production release of Oracle Database Programming Interface for C (ODPI-C) is... Read More

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Industry Leader Q&A with SHARE President Harry Williams

At the SHARE summer 2017 event in Providence, RI, Harry Williams, SHARE's president, reflected on the changes taking place in the enterprise technology ecosystem, and what's ahead for the IBM users group and the industry overall. Read More

Artificial Intelligence Has a 1% Problem

There are plenty of pronouncements about artificial intelligence—both in terms of the miracles it can produce and the threat it poses to humanity. But according to Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, there is actually a "1% problem" in that there are a handful of companies such as Google, Amazon, and a few others that are actually accomplishing their goals with it. AI has vast potential but some of the claims, as well as the fears, are overstated and a little premature right now, he contends. Read More

The Artificial Intelligence Journey Has Only Begun

We're still very much in the early days of artificial intelligence (AI). However, money is pouring into AI initiatives at astounding rates, and enterprises need to move at a deliberate speed to adopt and leverage AI across their systems, applications, and data. Read More

The 2017 DBTA Readers' Choice Award Winners

Who makes the best relational database, what is the best NoSQL database, which company has the best Hadoop platform? To find out, Database Trends and Applications magazine went straight to the experts. Each year, DBTA allows subscribers to vote for the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards. Unlike any other awards programs conducted by DBTA, this one is unique because the nominees are submitted and the winners are chosen by DBTA readers Read More

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Database Elaborations

Todd Schraml

Data Modeling Takes Practice, Practice, Practice There is an old joke that a tourist in New York City is lost while sightseeing and notices a musician leaving a taxi; he walks up to the musician and asks, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The musician responds, "Practice, practice, practice." Obviously, such jokes are doomed to obscurity as people now will simply use the navigation app on their phone. However, the advice itself, in its own way, will always be relevant—practice, practice, practice.

DBA Corner

Craig S. Mullins

The Importance of Referential Constraints for Data Integrity Referential integrity (RI) is a method for ensuring the "correctness" of data within a DBMS. People tend to oversimplify RI, stating that it is merely the identification of relationships between relational tables. It is actually much more than this. RI embodies the integrity and usability of a relationship by establishing rules that govern that relationship.

SQL Server Drill Down

Kevin Kline

Announcing SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 1 Microsoft announced the first release candidate (a.k.a. RC1) for SQL Server 2017 on Monday, July 17th. Release candidates are not a final and finished product, but they are feature complete. No new features are expected after Microsoft moves into the RC phase, only adding polish (for example, brushing up the documentation and UI) and performance to the existing feature set. The full product release is planned for some time in the second half of 2017.

Emerging Technologies

Guy Harrison

The Battle for the Future of Bitcoin The emergence of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology may prove to be almost as significant an innovation as the internet itself. Blockchain offers a mechanism for the mediation of any transactions that previously would have required trusted third parties, while cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin may eventually become a significant alternative to traditional "fiat" (e.g., government-backed) currencies. These technologies could eventually revolutionize the global banking infrastructure which has underpinned global commerce for centuries.

Next-Gen Data Management

Gerardo Dada

Is Writing Good SQL a Lost Art? Poorly written SQL statements can cause significant performance problems in your database environment. According to some experts, poorly written SQL can cause up to 70% of performance problems overall. Adding resources can mask many issues surrounding poorly written SQL, but comes with a cost. Is writing good, quality SQL (including block code—stored procedures, packages, functions, etc.) a dying art? And if it's so important, why is that?