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Troubleshooting Problems with MySQL Replication
One of the most common MySQL operations is replicating databases between master and slave servers. While most such connections are straightforward to establish and maintain, on occasion something goes...
View ArticleHow Three Companies Improved Performance and Saved Money with MongoDB
Too often the increased efficiencies and performance improvements promised by new data technologies seem to vanish into thin air when the systems hit the production floor. Not so for these three...
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How to Minimize Data Wrangling and Maximize Data Intelligence
It's not unusual for data analysts to spend more than half their time cleaning and converting data rather than extracting business intelligence from it. As data stores grow in size and data types...
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New Compilers Streamline Optimization and Enhance Code Conversion
Researchers are developing compiler technologies that optimize and regenerate code in multiple languages and for many different platforms in only one or a handful of steps. While much of their work...
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Database - Beginning with Cloud Database As A Service
Note: When we recently launched, we were thrilled to have SQL Guru Pinal Dave give Morpheus a spin. It turns out that he had a great experience, and as he is indeed an SQLAuthority, we thought we'd...
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Don't Fall Victim to One of These Common SQL Programming 'Gotchas'
TL;DR: Even experienced SQL programmers can sometimes be thrown for an infinite loop -- or other code failure -- by one of the many pitfalls of the popular development platform. Get the upper hand by...
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Don't Drown Yourself With Big Data: Hadoop May Be Your Lifeline
TL; DR: The tremendous growth predicted for the open-source Hadoop architecture for data analysis is driven by the mind-boggling increase in the amount of structured and unstructured data in...
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The SQL Vulnerability Hackers Leverage to Steal Your IDs, Passwords, and More
[TL:DR] The theft of hundreds of millions of user IDs, passwords, and email addresses was made possible by a database programming technique called dynamic SQL, which makes it easy for hackers to use...
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No "Buts" About It: The Cloud Is Transforming Your Company's Business Processes
TL;DR: As IT managers gain confidence in the reliability and security of cloud services, it becomes more difficult for them to ignore the cloud's many benefits for all their business's operations....
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How Database Failure Left Harry Potter and Thousands of Travelers Stranded...
Daniel Radcliffe. Photograph: Perou/GuardianTL;DR As the US State Department coped with massive database failure, thousands of travelers (and one Harry Potter star) were prevented entry to the United...
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Why More Is Better with Database Management: The Multicloud Approach
TL;DR: At one time, organizations planning their cloud strategy adopted an either-or approach: Either store and manage data on a secure private cloud, or opt for the database-as-a-service model of the...
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Can A Silicon Valley CTO Save Government Software From Itself?
TL;DR: Following several high-profile development disasters, government IT departments have received a mandate to change their default app-development approach from the traditional top-down model to...
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Cloud Database Security, Farms and Restaurants: The Importance of Knowing...
TL;DR: Securing your company's cloud-based assets starts by applying tried-and-true data-security practices modified to address the unique characteristics of virtual-network environments. Cloud...
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DevOps: The Slow Tsunami That's Transforming IT
TL;DR: Old divisions in IT departments between app development and operations are crashing to the ground as users demand more apps with more features, and right now! By combining agile-development...
View ArticleWhy is Google Analytics so Fast? A Peek Inside
TL;DR: Google Analytics stores a massive amount of statistical data from web sites across the globe. Retrieving reports quickly from such a large amount of data requires Google to use a custom solution...
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NoSQL Will Protect You From The Onslaught of Data Overload (or a bull...
TL;DR: As the amount of unstructured data being collected by organizations skyrockets, their existing databases come up short: they're too slow, too inflexible, and too expensive. What's needed is a...
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How Is Google Analytics So Damn Fast?
TL; DR: Google Analytics stores a massive amount of statistical data from web sites across the globe. Retrieving reports quickly from such a large amount of data requires Google to use a custom...
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Slowly But Surely, The Dept. of Defense Plods Towards The Modern Day
TL; DR: The Department of Defense's slow, steady migration to public and private cloud architectures may be hastened by pressures at opposite ends of the spectrum. At one end are programs such as the...
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Why They Do It: Protect Your Data by Learning What Makes Hackers Tick
TL; DR: Recent data system breaches at Target and Home Depot remind us all that the continuous threat of criminal hacking of computer security systems is not abating. Rather, it’s becoming routine....
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The Key to Distributed Database Performance: Scalability
TL;DR: The realities of modern corporate networks make the move to distributed database architectures inevitable. How do you leverage the stability and security of traditional relational database...
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