To answer the question "Is what we're doing with this data really data science?", we first must ask the question "What is science?". Technology and process aside, science is first...

North Carolina and other like minded states would be interested to know that this technology could be easily employed to enforce gender based bathroom segregation laws. This is a $10...

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Keep in mind that business intelligence involves a lot of interfacing with internal and possibly external end users. The choices regarding technology and implementation will be handed down from above,...

Tuesday morning I discovered an overnight ETL process running on an Azure IaaS instance had aborted. Yesterday, I was told that Microsoft rebooted our Azure  hosted servers in the process of...

We have come full circle, sharing time on massive regionally centralized computing infrastructures and working with databases that are way to large and impractical to install on our desktop PC...

First, understand how a specific technology (new or old) fits into the overall ecology. Often times the flashy new tools and frameworks are really just an abstraction layer for building,...

I assuming here that you're talking about the 'page buffer cache'. This cache contains recently read pages,which are periodically cycled out using an algorithm based on frequency of usage. The cache...