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Nominations Period Extended for DBTA’s Readers’ Choice Awards

Submissions for nominations are now open for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users. The nominations period has been extended through March 20, 2026, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers. Read More

Laying the Perfect Data Foundation for AI

Artificial agents, applications, and bots are popping up across every enterprise landscape, and data is rolling through at a fast and furious pace. While there has been plenty of hype, excitement, and fear about AI's possibilities, there has been scant attention regarding the data infrastructure needed to make it all work—especially at the enterprise level. AI requires a strong and well-considered data foundation, whether it's extended out of legacy infrastructures or part of the next generation of data technology. Read More

MultiValue Looks Ahead in 2026

With the first half of the 2020s "done and dusted," it's time for organizations to take stock of where they are on their journey. As 2026 begins, DBTA presents the annual MultiValue (MV) Special Report and asks MV executives to address several questions Read More

Green IT Meets Database Engineering: How Better Data Architecture Reduces Energy Footprint

When organizations think about green IT, they usually consider data center efficiency, server consolidation, or cloud energy metrics. And yes, those are important areas, but they overlook one of the biggest contributors to an organization's energy footprint: its data architecture. Every table, index, column, backup, replication stream, and query consumes resources, and therefore energy. Poor data design doesn't just slow performance or inflate costs, it also increases the organization's environmental footprint. Read More

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Todd Schraml

Database Elaborations

Todd Schraml

  • Language is Always Hard Words such as "taxonomy" and "ontology" are often thrown around by data architects as if these terms were interchangeable. Generically, the ideas of taxonomy and ontology are similar, but not synonymous.
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Craig S. Mullins

DBA Corner

Craig S. Mullins

  • Green IT Meets Database Engineering: How Better Data Architecture Reduces Energy Footprint When organizations think about green IT, they usually consider data center efficiency, server consolidation, or cloud energy metrics. And yes, those are important areas, but they overlook one of the biggest contributors to an organization's energy footprint: its data architecture. Every table, index, column, backup, replication stream, and query consumes resources, and therefore energy. Poor data design doesn't just slow performance or inflate costs, it also increases the organization's environmental footprint.
Recent articles: Craig S. Mullins
Kevin Kline

SQL Server Drill Down

Kevin Kline

  • Striking the Right Balance Between Automation and Manual Processes in IT As agentic AI continues to expand across the IT landscape, many processes are being automated. However, some processes are still better managed by humans than by machines. Rather than thinking of applying AI wherever possible and over-automating, leaders should think about the most beneficial uses of the technology and begin implementation of the technology in those areas first before expanding further.
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  • The End of Jobs as We Know Them (And Why That’s Not a Bad Thing) For decades, every major technological breakthrough has sparked fear about job loss. From steam engines to computers, new tools were once seen as threats to human work. But each wave of innovation brought transformation, not extinction. Work did not disappear—it evolved. Today, AI and digital technologies are raising similar concerns. Headlines often focus on what machines can replace, rather than what they enable.
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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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