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The Top Information Management Trends for 2024
Jan 11, 2024 — The following are key trends shaping the data landscape of 2024 as identified by industry leaders: Artificial intelligence. Front and center to any discussion, of course, is the rapidly increasing use of AI. Expect to see more businesses seeking to “achieve competitive differentiation through AI and generative AI, powered by their data ...
Data Warehouses, Data Marts, Operational Data Stores, and Data …
Sep 26, 2018 — Many organizations nowadays are struggling with finding the appropriate data stores for their data, making it important to understand the differences and similarities between data warehouses, data marts, ODSs, and data lakes. All these data structures clearly serve different purposes and user profiles, and it is necessary to be aware of their differences in …
The 5 Key Factors for Database Performance
Oct 31, 2019 — Five factors influence database performance: workload, throughput, resources, optimization, and contention. The workload that is requested of the DBMS defines the demand. It is a combination of online transactions, batch jobs, ad hoc queries, data warehousing analysis, utilities, and system commands directed through the system at any given time.
Common SQL Server Wait Types to Improve Database Performance
Aug 7, 2019 — OLEDB —This wait type indicates that a SPID has made a function call to an OLE DB provider and is waiting for the function to return the required data. This wait type may also indicate the SPID is waiting for remote procedure calls, linked server queries, BULK INSERT commands, or full-search queries. PAGEIOLATCH_* —Buffer latches, including ...
The Role of Bitemporality in Data Governance and Compliance
Apr 7, 2017 — This data can help determine customer patterns and behavior, for more strategic development of new products and services. Generally speaking, bitemporality makes sense for the following scenarios: Regulatory requirements, enabling companies to avoid fines. Audits, preserving the history of all data, including the changes made to it.
The Importance of Referential Constraints for Data Integrity
Aug 9, 2017 — Referential integrity (RI) is a method for ensuring the 'correctness' of data within a DBMS. People tend to oversimplify RI, stating that it is merely the identification of relationships between relational tables. It is actually much more than this. RI embodies the integrity and usability of a relationship by establishing rules that govern that relationship.
What is Data as a Service? The 3 Key Dimensions
Nov 4, 2016 — DaaS can overcome these business conditions from three dimensions: information-rich external data assets, connecting data silos, and enabling pre-built and packaged analytics. Looking at each element in more detail, DaaS helps organizations manage the following: 1. External data assets. External data assets provide an enterprise with additional ...
The Top Information Management Trends For 2023
Jan 12, 2023 — Uncertain economic conditions, skills shortages, rising automation, increasing regulation, and digital disruption-all add up to a stew of both challenges and opportunities for data managers in the year ahead. Emerging technologies-and new attitudes-are reshaping the look and scope of the information management landscape, with implications for overall business …
Actian Data Platform ‘Makes Data Easy,’ Introducing New Data ...
Nov 14, 2023 — Actian Corporation, the data and analytics division of HCLSoftware, has relaunched the Actian Data Platform, known previously as Avalanche, accompanied by a variety of new capabilities, including hybrid Integration-as-a-Service.Designed to drive data confidence, data quality, and affordability, the Actian Data Platform centralizes data processes while …