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Voting Starts Now for the 2025 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards

It's time to vote 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 readers. The voting period will be open through Friday, May 30. Read More

30 Startups to Watch in 2025

Now that the hype behind AI is receding, tech CEOs face intensifying pressure to deliver innovation while managing rising levels of enterprise risk. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2025. Read More

The Tools, Platforms, and Strategies Shaping Today’s Data Stacks

What does it take to deliver superior data services and capabilities in today's enterprises? With the rise of AI and machine learning (ML)—and their data-heavy workloads—data managers are actively seeking greater scalability and adaptability in their environments. Read More

Meeting the Rising Demand for Data Centers: Q&A With Johnson Controls’ Rick Focke

The demand for data centers is on the uptick, being driven by the increased growth of digital services from cloud computing, AI, and 5G to apps on smartphones, laptops, and desktops. To keep up with this surge, approximately 4,750 data centers are now actively under construction across the U.S. Read More

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Todd Schraml

Database Elaborations

Todd Schraml

  • Putting Fun in Functional Dependency Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with trying to save space. Instead, the desire is to prevent maintenance anomalies. The normalization process involves stepping through the evaluation of normal forms that decompose a data structure into multiple structures based on the needs of these normal forms.
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Craig S. Mullins

DBA Corner

Craig S. Mullins

  • Mainframes, COBOL, and the Future of Legacy Databases For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern database technologies and cloud-based solutions, legacy databases remain deeply embedded in mission-critical operations.
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Kevin Kline

SQL Server Drill Down

Kevin Kline

  • The Smart Automation Playbook: Elevating SQL Server Performance As today's database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database management. When DevOps teams and DBAs combine effective automation with Microsoft SQL Server use, it allows organizations to experience better server monitoring and increase server performance while removing common hurdles to software development.
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  • AI, Big Data, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Navigating the Future of Work and Skills The World Economic Forum has made a bold statement: We are in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and this revolution is more challenging than any before it. What makes it so difficult? This new era is defined by technologies we can't see, touch, or fully understand. From AI to big data and augmented reality, these innovations are transforming every aspect of our lives at a pace that many believe humanity simply can't keep up with.
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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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