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Experts Discuss What to Consider When Migrating Hadoop Configurations to the Cloud at Data Summit Connect 2021 Migrating a large-scale Hadoop cluster to the cloud is challenging, especially when... Read More
Looking at the Current State of DataOps at Data Summit Connect 2021 To maximize the value of their data, organizations are building large data teams... Read More
PingCAP TiDB Cloud Now Available in Public Preview PingCAP announced its fully managed Database as a Service, TiDB Cloud, is now available... Read More
Altair Launches Unified Cloud Platform Altair, a global technology company providing solutions in simulation, high-performance... Read More
Building a Data Strategy at Data Summit Connect 2021 When it comes to building a data strategy, plans are useless but planning in invaluable,... Read More
Rethinking Key Data Management Practices After Cloud Migration Cloud adoption in the enterprise continues to accelerate as more and more businesses... Read More
IBM Meets New Chip Milestone with 2 Nanometer Chip Technology IBM is making a breakthrough in semiconductor design and process with the development... Read More

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Linux Becomes a Player in the SQL Server World

If you're looking for proof of the hybrid, multi-platform nature of today's data environments, look no further than many SQL Server sites. Linux—not too long ago seen as a competitive platform to all things Microsoft—has become a platform of choice now supporting many SQL Server environments. Read More

The Techniques and Technologies Bringing Agility to Enterprise Data

Today's data environments are becoming more flexible and portable than their more rigid, siloed predecessors, thanks to emerging approaches. Strategies that are the building blocks of portability, adaptability, and rapid delivery—containers, microservices, DevOps, and DataOps—are transforming the way data is managed. Read More

Vendor Software License Audits Have Become More Frequent. Are You Prepared?

With the 1-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown just behind us, there has been a lot of dialogue regarding what different industries have experienced over the past year. Acknowledging this dubious anniversary, we sat down to collect our thoughts and share a few advisements with respect to our small corner of the legal and tech industry. Read More

Registration is Now Open for Data Summit Connect 2021

Overcoming travel challenges, Data Summit Connect 2021, presented by DBTA and Big Data Quarterly, is a virtual event that will run May 11-12 and include provocative sessions, exhibits, and opportunities to network. In addition, preconference workshops will be held on May 10. Read More

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Database Elaborations

Todd Schraml

New Data (Almost) Always Rings Twice Anything worth doing, is worth doing again and again. Right? When building out and standardizing new subject areas or new sources for one's data warehouse, hub, or other analytics area, a task often initially overlooked is the logic bringing in the data. Obviously, everybody knows that the new data must be processed. What many ignore is the idea that establishing the process to bring the data in often must be done twice, or more.

DBA Corner

Craig S. Mullins

What Do You Mean by Database Performance? Even in today's modern IT environment, performance management is often conducted reactively instead of proactively. You know the drill. A client calls with a response time problem. A table space maxes out on extents. A program is running without taking commits causing all kinds of locking problems. Somebody changed an application package without checking on the new access paths and transactions are slower than before. And then somebody submitted that "query from hell" again that just won't stop running. Sound familiar?

SQL Server Drill Down

Kevin Kline

Azure SQL Database Gets More Secure with Secure Enclaves An important new set of features for security and confidential computing was announced at the recent Microsoft Ignite virtual conference and are now in public preview. Although the name doesn't exactly trip off your tongue, Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves offers important new capabilities for organizations that need greater control and security over their data while also enjoying the agility, scalability, and productivity gains of the public cloud.

MongoDB Matters

Guy Harrison

MongoDB, meet Kubernetes Setting up a distributed MongoDB cluster by hand is a complex and error-prone process. However, MongoDB provides a Kubernetes operator, which allows such a deployment to be established within a Kubernetes cluster amazingly easily. The "operator" is a controller program that runs within the Kubernetes cluster and contains the MongoDB-specific logic for establishing MongoDB cluster topologies. One need only supply the operator with a configuration file, and the operator will do the rest—creating and configuring MongoDB nodes, setting up best-practice security, and handling the connectivity between nodes.

Next-Gen Data Management

Cleaning Dirty Data Remember, all data is dirty—you won't be able to make all of it perfect. Your focus should be on making it good enough to pass along to the next person. The first step is to examine the data and ask yourself, "Does this data make sense?" Data should tell a story or answer a question. Make sure your data does, too. Then, before you do anything else, make a copy—or backup—of your data before you make the smallest change.