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Critical Issues Facing the Data Center

Evolving business and technology environments bring a host of challenging business issues for the data center. This article discusses some of these challenges and suggests how to mitigate them.

Information Visibility: From Familiar Vision to New Reality

New classes of databases are making information visibility real.

Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 28 - A Revised Roadmap

We will summarize what we've done so far and proceed to develop an amended roadmap.

Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 27 - Original and Temporal Inserts (Concluded)

We will proceed now to a discussion of original and temporal inserts.

Structured and Unstructured: The What, Why and How of Convergence

Much of the strength and area of focus for the DBMS has been on storing structured data.

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Time and Time Again: The Importance of Bi-Temporal Data Management

To emphasize the relevance of our discussions to real-world data management issues, we will consider four hypothetical questions, asked by a client on the telephone with an insurance company's customer service representative.

Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases - A Revised Roadmap

I will present a side-by-side series of inserts, updates and deletes against non-temporal tables and against corresponding uni-versioned tables.

Data Archiving - A Quiet Market Reaches Take-off Velocity

Data archiving is a quiet market with significant potential. Given the growth in data volumes and intolerance for response time delays, interest in the capabilities of archiving, retention and restore software is reaching take-off speed.

The Problems of Megadata Searches

This column explores what would happen if databases were organizied more like libaries.

Data Models are Not Database Design

Examine the assumption that a data model can capture all the information about the design of a database.

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How does the newest release of MySQL measure up to the task of managing a several GB database, especially in reporting?

Is there a best practice associated with the number of distinct databases that should be used in the overall warehouse?

Do you have any specific suggestions about the use of a primary key in fact tables?

What are native connections? How are they different from ODBC connections? What are the advantages and disadvantages of native connections?

Do you think that multidimensional databases (MDDBs) are hindered by poor scalability?

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Databasing in the 90s: Data and What We're Doing with It!

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