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Submit Nominations Now for DBTA’s Readers’ Choice Awards

Submissions for nominations are now open for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users. The nominations period is open through March 7, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers. Read More

MultiValue Continues to Thrive in 2025

In the thick of the 2020s now, organizations are entering a new tech era, one dominated around conversations declaring, "What AI can do for your enterprise!" As 2025 begins, DBTA presents the annual MultiValue (MV) Special Report and asks MV executives to address several questions. Read More

Is the Ultimate ‘Data Deluge’ Finally Upon Us?

The "data deluge" is as familiar to IT professionals as it is cliché, but what we are encountering today is very different. Will our typical response be enough? Often hyped, the data deluge has been an omnipresent theme in IT circles for years as enterprises struggled to manage an ever-increasing barrage of data. Read More

NIS2: Another European Game-Changer for U.S. Manufacturers

Picture this: You're a U.S. manufacturer who just finished adapting to the European Data Act, breathing a sigh of relief. Not so fast. Enter NIS2 (Network and Information Systems Directive 2), Europe's latest regulatory powerhouse that's about to reshape the cybersecurity landscape for manufacturers worldwide. Read More

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Todd Schraml

Database Elaborations

Todd Schraml

  • The Many Faces of Denormalization Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented. Denormalization means that, for some reason, grouping the data strictly by functional dependencies has been ignored. Why might one cast aside reasonable designs for something less rational? There are many reasons for denormalizing.
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Craig S. Mullins

DBA Corner

Craig S. Mullins

  • Top 5 DBA Concerns in the Age of AI and Cloud The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) is constantly evolving to adapt to changes in technology and application development methods. Once primarily focused on managing physical hardware and software, DBAs now find themselves navigating a complex landscape of cloud technologies, AI-driven automation, and ever-increasing data volumes. Here at the beginning of 2025, let's explore the top five concerns that keep DBAs up at night.
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Kevin Kline

SQL Server Drill Down

Kevin Kline

  • Combining Your Database and DevOps With Observability Since the term's inception in the late 2000s, "DevOps" is by far the most common approach to product development. During the last 15 years, DevOps processes have evolved to new speeds and scales, with the latest iteration including AI-assisted coding and platform engineering. Simultaneously, certain companies are struggling to master database operations. As a result, many organizations have data that sits in silos and/or can be hard to track down. What today's businesses need is a way to combine DevOps and data management, ultimately creating a Database DevOps framework.
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Guy Harrison

Emerging Technologies

Guy Harrison

  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Tech After more than 2 decades of writing for DBTA, this will be my final column. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to engage with you on databases and emerging technologies. As with all good things, this journey must end, and I want to use this moment to reflect on the changes we've witnessed during the past 20 years and look ahead to the future.
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  • Will AI Become Our Friend or Foe? Technology Professionals Weigh In. Picture this: there's a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn't human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
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