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Transforming Your Data and Analytics in the Cloud

There is a growing urgency to adopt cloud services to buttress today's rapidly growing inventories of high-end analytic and AI applications. This is fueled by massive volumes of data that are spilling over the capacities and capabilities of on-prem systems. It works the other way, as well: AI is paving the way for more robust cloud services, offering ever-expanding real-time automated provisioning and scalability. Read More

Unlocking GenAI and Cloud Effectiveness With Intelligent Archiving

Data drives everything, and businesses must prepare their data to fully leverage technologies, including generative AI (GenAI), cloud computing, and advanced applications. Archiving is a key strategy in this process, ensuring data is clean, accessible, optimized, and cost-efficient. By consolidating and archiving inactive or redundant data, companies can create the high-quality datasets that are essential for training GenAI models and achieving reliable outcomes. Read More

Tools, Teams, and Workflows: The Right Way to Build Operational Resilience

In the AI era, we're constantly talking about how important data is—storing data, disseminating data, and protecting data. As data specialists, we understand bad data management leads to bad use of AI which leads, quite frankly, to bad business outcomes. Read More

Sponsored Content: Why Most AI Projects Fail—And Why It’s Not Always a Bad Thing

The claim that "AI projects are failing" has become a familiar headline—and a valid one. But while the failure rate may be high, it's not necessarily cause for alarm. In fact, understanding why these initiatives fall short is key to making them succeed. Read More

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Todd Schraml

Database Elaborations

Todd Schraml

  • Remember What the Dormouse Said Fourth and fifth normal forms send us down a pretty, yellow brick road leaving behind functional dependencies to gather up join dependencies and their special child, multi-valued dependencies. Explanations for these extra dependencies can be conflicting, which makes them perfectly at home in Wonderland with Alice. We'll try and explain them a little here, but be prepared, because others will claim this is wrong.
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Craig S. Mullins

DBA Corner

Craig S. Mullins

  • The Hidden Cost of Technical Debt in Databases Technical debt is a concept most IT professionals are familiar with, but too often it is discussed primarily in terms of application code. Yet, databases are equally susceptible to technical debt, and for DBAs, ignoring it can be costly. Over time, shortcuts in design, hasty implementations, and deferred maintenance accumulate. The result is a database environment that becomes increasingly fragile, expensive to manage, and resistant to change.
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Kevin Kline

SQL Server Drill Down

Kevin Kline

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  • Schema Shift: From Vegas Lights to San Diego Bytes With fall in full swing, the conference season is reaching its peak as professionals gather across the country for major industry events. While cities such as Las Vegas and Orlando have long been mainstays for large-scale conventions, a new venue on the West Coast is beginning to draw attention.
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  • Will AI Become Our Friend or Foe? Technology Professionals Weigh In. Picture this: there's a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn't human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
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