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DBTA Readers' Choice Award Winners (2026)

The influence of generative AI (GenAI) and decision intelligence continues to drive data-driven processes. While data quality and security remain essential, everyday components, organizations should also embrace AI/ machine language-driven automation and self-service analytics, while paying equal attention to the human element, thereby fostering a strong data culture, robust governance, and enhanced data literacy. With more data being created than ever before, making the right choices among the countless options for data management and analytics solutions is a top priority for many organizations. To help companies progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, offering the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers! Read More

Industry Experts Discuss What’s Next for the Future of Virtualization

Organizations are adapting to a new era of IT virtualization and data center infrastructure management as VMware shifts to costly subscription models and ends support for vSphere 8 perpetual licenses in October 2027. DBTA recently held a webinar, 2026 IT Virtualization Survey: What's Next for VMware Users, with industry experts who broke down the findings of the new "2026 IT Virtualization Survey: What's Next for VMware Users," which gathered data from 269 global IT infrastructure and security leaders. Read More

The Most Dangerous Phrase in Database Management: ‘It’s Just Data'

In the world of database management, there are a handful of phrases that make experienced DBAs uneasy. Statements such as "we'll fix it in production" or "the database can handle it" usually signal that trouble is coming. But there is another phrase that may be even more dangerous: "It's just data." Read More

Game-Changing Technologies Fueling The Data-Driven Enterprise In 2026

What technologies for the data-driven era are emerging now? As you might guess, much of the activity seen across the market is connected to AI. At the same time, there is a critical data element that needs both to support AI implementations, as well as be supported by AI. DBTA queried industry leaders to get their views on the most compelling technologies now emerging in this data-driven era. Read More

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Todd Schraml

Database Elaborations

Todd Schraml

  • Language is Always Hard Words such as "taxonomy" and "ontology" are often thrown around by data architects as if these terms were interchangeable. Generically, the ideas of taxonomy and ontology are similar, but not synonymous.
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Craig S. Mullins

DBA Corner

Craig S. Mullins

  • The Most Dangerous Phrase in Database Management: ‘It’s Just Data' In the world of database management, there are a handful of phrases that make experienced DBAs uneasy. Statements such as "we'll fix it in production" or "the database can handle it" usually signal that trouble is coming. But there is another phrase that may be even more dangerous: "It's just data."
Recent articles: Craig S. Mullins
Kevin Kline

SQL Server Drill Down

Kevin Kline

  • More Than Hype: How DBAs Can Ensure AI Adds Real Value According to recent data from the SolarWinds "State of Monitoring and Observability Report," 51% of IT pros believe database performance would benefit from better observability. Oftentimes, database observability suffers because teams have multiple, disparate observability and monitoring tools. This tool sprawl creates blind spots that make it harder to identify and react to database performance issues.
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  • On Assignment: Inside Recruitment Databases—How Candidates Get Found (or Missed) As part of my On Assignment LinkedIn article series, I've continued to explore what candidates rarely see: the inner workings of recruitment databases and how recruiters actually use them in real time. This assignment took me deeper into a critical but often overlooked part of the hiring ecosystem: how resumes are categorized, stored, and retrieved and how small details can dramatically impact whether a candidate is ever seen.
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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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