Just like the 20th century was the period when companies learned the consequences of industrial pollution, perhaps many companies today will minimize their legal exposure and operational expense by not...

Chief Data Officer would be sort of a pretentious title for those small and medium sized organizations that don't even have a designated Database Administrator.

It's unclear why the staff who are mostly "Report Writers" would naturally fit into the DBA team, especially if they mostly maintain reports for a specific business unit like Finance...

If the vendor is stubborn about the configuration, and you have no other choice but to use them, then you can perhaps run their applications and databases inside a VM...

I saw that error the other day. The messages started appearing in the sql server log across all servers. It resulted from a misconfiguration in the server side component of...

There is a lot of snake oil when it comes to the promotion of IoT, Big Data, and social media. It's the applications and the people behind them that have...