DBTA E-EDITION
November 2025
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Trends and Applications
In today's hyperconnected digital economy, uptime is critical, and while downtime is inconvenient, it also poses a threat to reputation, revenue, and customer trust. Enterprises are expected to deliver seamless, uninterrupted services around the clock. And although many organizations invest heavily in high availability (HA) infrastructure, they often overlook the equally critical need for disaster recovery (DR). This is because ensuring your systems are available is different from ensuring that they are recoverable.
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.
Columns - Database Elaborations
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.
Columns - DBA Corner
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.
MV Community
RDM Infinity is launching WebTerm, a next-generation terminal emulator that brings MultiValue access into the browser with zero client installs, modern productivity tools, and flexible, site-based licensing. Built from the ground up using industry-standard open technologies, WebTerm eliminates the need for traditional desktop installations and manual updates, according to RDM Infinity.