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Voting Extended for the 2025 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards

It's time to vote 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 readers. The voting period is extended through Monday, June 9. Read More

The Potential of Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs

In the age when data is everything to a business, managers and analysts alike are looking to emerging forms of databases to paint a clear picture of how data is delivering to their businesses. The challenge is an insatiable demand from businesses for AI capabilities, which rely on access to data that has be reliably vetted and relevant to the prompts or queries at hand. Graph databases and knowledge graphs—especially when combined—fulfill this role. Read More

The Machinations of Data Observability at Data Summit 2025

Nilanjan Chatterjee, senior staff data architect, AMD, led the Data Summit session,  "Becoming an Insights-Driven Enterprise," guiding attendees through the ways that data observability can be effectively harnessed to power the highest standards of business data, for AI use cases and beyond.  Read More

The Unpredictability of Tariffs Threatens Big Tech Progress: Q&A With ScaleFlux’s JB Baker

American political instability leading to monthly "will they, won't they" back and forth about tariffs, is looking to begin to affect the overall tech sector, potentially impacting the progress of AI advancements, upending data center operations, and semiconductor chips. For U.S. tech firms looking to sidestep the effect of tariffs and future-proof their infrastructure, homegrown innovation is crucial, believes JB Baker, vice president of products at ScaleFlux. Read More

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Todd Schraml

Database Elaborations

Todd Schraml

  • The Supernatural Many-to-Many Relationship In the realm of data modeling, many-to-many relationships are often considered an "odd duck." Unlike one-to-one or one-to-many relationships, which can be directly implemented in physical database schemas, many-to-many relationships must remain in the abstract, the conceptual, the supernatural, and never the physical. This insubstantial nature makes them troublesome for greener data modelers.
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Craig S. Mullins

DBA Corner

Craig S. Mullins

  • The Impact of Data Governance on Database Administration Data governance is transforming the world of business and IT as organizations increasingly acknowledge and embrace the importance of data in the modern world. And this transformation significantly impacts database administration. From regulatory compliance to data quality and security, DBAs must navigate an evolving landscape where effective data management is a key business priority. The rise of data governance introduces new responsibilities but also presents unique challenges that DBAs must address.
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Kevin Kline

SQL Server Drill Down

Kevin Kline

  • The Smart Automation Playbook: Elevating SQL Server Performance As today's database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database management. When DevOps teams and DBAs combine effective automation with Microsoft SQL Server use, it allows organizations to experience better server monitoring and increase server performance while removing common hurdles to software development.
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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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