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Evolution, Not Revolution: Tips for Transitioning to a Federated Database System

Click to learn more about author Richard Mohrmann. As enterprises scale, they develop data inefficiencies. Sometimes these inefficiencies arise internally, between departments or branches, while others emerge as the parent company acquires smaller companies, each with their own databases and IT departments. In either case, communication issues ensue as siloed databases and IT redundancies begin […]

Encryption, Primary Keys and Infinity

Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. A certain area of cyber security involves encryption. This necessarily includes a good passphrase, modular math and a lot of scrambling.  Good encryption produces a coded message that appears like a series of random numbers. You see, in a real series of random numbers. There is infinite entropy. […]

Data Modeling Trends in 2018

The Database Management and Data Modeling landscapes have evolved significantly in the past few years, from the traditional relational model to now include non-relational models as well. The growth of Big Data and its unstructured and semi-structured data formats, along with trends in Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Data Lakes, Machine Learning, Blockchain and others pushing […]

The Data Logjam Facing DevOps and Digital Transformation

Click to learn more about author Paul Stanton. Cloud Computing and DevOps are dominant themes in computing today.   AWS, Azure, Google, and others compete to provide greater agility, while reducing enterprise cost of building, running, and protecting information services.    Progress is being made in DevOps strategies, with new leadership and organizational culture, combined with tools […]

Surrogate Keys: Paving the Way for Graph / NoSQL Data Models

Click to learn more about video blogger Thomas Frisendal. Since the mid-seventies many SQL-databases have been modeled using the concept of surrogate keys: Non-information bearing primary keys Used for join purposes (inter-table relationships) System generated (integer) values Not to be shown to end-users The advantage of using surrogate keys is guaranteed persistence, even across changes in […]