Volume 31 | Number 4 AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2017
FEATURES
RESEARCH@DBTA
2 The Artificial Intelligence Journey Has Only Begun By Joe McKendrick
FEATURE STORY
4 This is the Year IoT and Cognitive Computing Begin to Shake UP the Database Market
By Joe McKendrick
Readers’ Choice Awards 2017 > SPECIAL SECTION
9 Database Trends and Applications Readers’ Choice Awards 2017
DEPARTMENTS
MULTIVALUE SOLUTIONS
26 Plumbing Company Modernizes Services with Revelation Software
Applications
28 Using Automated Asset Information for a Strong ITAM Foundation By Bob Spurzem
Trends
30 Encryption: No Longer a Fringe Security Feature By Stephen Moss
32 How to Achieve True Hybrid cloud Analytics By Drew Clarke
COLUMNS
34 Next-Gen Data Management > by Gerardo Dada
Is Writing Good SQL a Lost Art?
35 Emerging technologies > by Guy Harrison
The Battle for the Future of Bitcoin
36 DBA Corner > by Craig S. Mullins
The Importance of Referential Constraints
37 IOUG OBSERVATIONS > by David Start
Baby steps to the cloud
38 SQL Server Drill Down > by Kevin Kline
Adaptive Query Processing in SQL Server 2017
40 Database Elaborations > by Todd Schraml
Data Modeling Takes Practice, Practice, Practice