Most database implementations are anything but static. Once deployed, databases are queried, updated, loaded, unloaded, reorganized, and data is deleted and inserted from them on an ongoing basis.

This story was originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions. A city’s data is one of its most valuable assets. Urban data is the bedrock of the performance management programs that allow citiesto ...

512/463-6581 or [email protected] Bill McGarigle Contributing Writer Several administrative, technical and political factors must be considered when deciding how much accuracy to have in a ...

Designing and building a new data center that aims to be sustainable and efficient – particularly without having to compromise on availability (uptime) performance – is a challenging process fraught ...

A disaster recovery plan is like insurance—you’re glad you have it, but you hope you never need it. With automobile insurance, you pay a regular fee so that you are covered if you have an accident. In ...

While the United States boasts the most powerful army in the world, one of its most critical military assets is the Army's logistics infrastructure. Gen. Gustave Perna, commander of Army Materiel ...

Insufficient disk space on database servers was the cause of Toyota car production grinding to a halt for 36 hours at 14 plants in Japan late in August. But just how does such a situation arise?