I work with a number of databases and also database tools.  Some expect a semi-colon terminator, others don't.

One of the reasons that the NOSQL crowd started adopting a...

I just say I program computers for 'x' and turn the conversation back to their interests.

It depends entirely on the use case.
If you have a dimensional data mart then it's probably heavily denormalised
For systems such as SAS analytics they thrive on heavily denormalised...

I've just got back from a 2 week cruise around Scotland, Iceland and Ireland.  I deliberately didn't take any form of electronic device, didn't watch the news, avoided the onboard...

This article on using npm packages to steal data pretty much sums up the risks.  I believe the techniques used in the article have recently been

I find a lot of business requirements for data involve testing and experimentation.  They don't know what they don't know and want to explore the data.  They are not yet...

My experience has been that data and data objects are retained so long that there is fear and doubt as to whether they can be deprecated or purged.  Similarly applications...

When I think of schemaless data I think of data persisted to a storage medium where that storage medium has no concept of a schema.  It is the responsibility of...

I've read through the GDPR several times.  From the perspective of a data person it boils down to treating your customers with some respect and adopting data disciplines that you...

I think the key to getting the best from serverless computing is in the design and architecture of the application.  The costs act as a spur to getting it right.

I saw an interesting article calling SQL a narrow waist.  Yes we have all these database types but what has been discovered is that each database type with its own...