Data Modeling Articles
Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with trying to save space. Instead, the desire is to prevent maintenance anomalies. The normalization process involves stepping through the evaluation of normal forms that decompose a data structure into multiple structures based on the needs of these normal forms.
Posted April 10, 2025
For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern database technologies and cloud-based solutions, legacy databases remain deeply embedded in mission-critical operations.
Posted April 10, 2025
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.
Posted April 10, 2025
Prophecy is launching Prophecy 4.0, the latest version of its AI-driven data integration platform for pipeline development, deployment, and automation—addressing the needs of analysts in the business, delivering self-service, production-ready data preparation that operates within guardrails defined by central IT.
Posted April 08, 2025
That is why enterprises must investigate the AI-readiness of their data, regardless of their adoption journeys. In DBTA's latest webinar, Is Your Data Ready for GenAI? Why You Must Know!, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst, Radiant Advisors, and Joshua Èrhardt, director, data and AI marketing, Informatica, examined the current state of generative AI (GenAI) as well as how organizations can effectively prepare for its inevitable implementation.
Posted April 07, 2025
Zuken Inc. announced an agreement with IBM to join the IBM Research AI Hardware Center as a commercial member to further support development for next-generation chips.
Posted April 07, 2025
Harper, bringing next-level web performance to a digital-first world, is releasing version 4.5 of its global application delivery platform, including several new features for building, scaling, and running high-performance data-intensive workloads, providing the addition of Binary Large Object (Blob) storage for the efficient handling of unstructured, media-rich data, i.e., images, real-time videos, and rendered HTML.
Posted April 04, 2025
In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, strategic financial planning must be closely interlinked with infrastructure efficiency. As per Gartner's forecast, global IT spending is expected to rise by over 8%, fueled by enterprise adoption of cloud, AI, automation, and cybersecurity technologies. With budget planning cycles on the horizon, organizations must not only assess where to invest—but also how to eliminate inefficiencies. This is where Oracle rightsizing becomes critical.
Posted April 02, 2025
Oracle and NVIDIA are announcing a first-of-its-kind integration between NVIDIA accelerated computing and inference software with Oracle's AI infrastructure and generative AI services, making over 160 AI tools and 100-plus NVIDIA NIM microservices available natively through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console.
Posted April 02, 2025
Even when we try to discuss a nameless thing, we apply a pseudo-name to allow us to articulate our thoughts. The "pink place," "the big, big road," "the evil-looking tree" …. To discuss a thing, it must have an identity. A name supplies an identity for a thing. Once named, we may now speak of it. The bedrock of any good set of standards starts with names. Regardless of the role we may play in managing technological solutions, everything needs a name because everything will be discussed.
Posted April 02, 2025
SER Group, a leading provider of Intelligent Content Automation solutions, is acquiring AFI Solutions, a specialist in the digitalization and optimization of document-centric processes in SAP. With this acquisition, SER will leverage AFI Solutions' SAP offering for purchase-to-pay (P2P) and order-to-cash (O2C) processes and launch a new global SAP Center of Excellence with AFI's highly experienced team, including over 100 SAP product and field experts, to provide even wider support to its SAP customers.
Posted March 26, 2025
Experts joined DBTA's latest webinar, Mitigating AI Risks: Governance, Security and Compliance Strategies, to examine how the right mix of governance, security, and compliance technologies and best practices can ensure AI success.
Posted March 21, 2025
Oracle database administrators (DBAs) face significant challenges in managing consistency, efficient collaboration, and complex database schema changes across multiple environments. Manual processes for schema updates can be error-prone, time-consuming, and difficult to coordinate across large teams. Downtime and data inconsistencies are two risks organizations face in this situation. To address this, DBA teams can use reliable database schema management tools such as Liquibase.
Posted March 19, 2025
Oracle has emerged as a key organization in the running to oversee TikTok's U.S. operations. Politico reported the White House is in discussions with Oracle on a deal that would give the company oversight over TikTok's U.S. data, and task Oracle with keeping that information walled off from the Chinese government.
Posted March 19, 2025
DefectDojo, a pioneer in scalable unified vulnerability management and DevSecOps, is celebrating its first-ever Community Month, introducing a variety of product updates, new initiatives to recognize the platform's major open-source contributors, and a greater presence at events designed for open-source cybersecurity professionals.
Posted March 17, 2025
Semaphore, a leading CI/CD platform, announced its core platform is officially open source under the Apache 2.0 license—empowering DevOps professionals worldwide, who have long struggled with the limitations of existing solutions, with a path that combines enterprise-grade reliability with the transparency and customizability of open source.
Posted March 17, 2025
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is announcing that its latest update to the VAST Data Platform makes it the first and only solution on the market to unify vector search, event-driven automation, and fine-grained security within a single, high-performance data platform, according to the company.
Posted March 13, 2025
Momentic, an AI end-to-end testing platform for developers, announced it has raised $3.7M in a seed round, enabling the company to accelerate its own product development and hiring process.
Posted March 12, 2025
NEXCOM is releasing the FTA 5190 AI-Powered Edge Server, powered by the Intel Xeon 6 SoC, meeting the growing demand for seamless data processing and enabling efficient collaboration, big data handling, and application-centric deployments.
Posted March 12, 2025
Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, announced that it has topped its funding to $100 million, enabling the company to further expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchains. This total amount of funding includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds.
Posted March 12, 2025
IBM is debuting the latest version of its Granite large language model (LLM) family, Granite 3.2—continuing to deliver small, efficient, practical enterprise AI for real-world impact.
Posted March 10, 2025
Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is introducing Data Link, a partner program designed to streamline the integration of the Precisely data portfolio with data from trusted providers via pre-linked datasets.
Posted March 07, 2025
Rik Tamm-Daniels, GVP of ecosystems and technology, Informatica, and Manish Dalwadi, director of product management, Databricks, joined DBTA's webinar, Build a GenAI-Ready Enterprise with Informatica & Databricks, offering their guidance on strategies and tools for preparing data infrastructures for enterprise-grade AI.
Posted March 06, 2025
Database security is crucial to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data. It builds customer trust, helps comply with regulations, and reduces the risks associated with cyberattacks or unauthorized access. Security has always been a top priority for Oracle. Oracle 23ai has introduced several advanced security features that help in protecting data, managing privileges, enhanced encryption, and more.
Posted March 05, 2025
All of the hype and high hopes around AI in recent years has focused on compelling use cases—from creating new medicines to taking over customer service. However, all AI efforts will be nonstarters without well-governed, well-sourced data. That is the leading challenge for enterprises going forward in the competitive economy of 2025.
Posted March 05, 2025
Juniper Networks, a leader in secure AI-native networking, is introducing a new round of innovations for its routing portfolio that expedite deployment and enhance routing troubleshooting at scale.
Posted March 03, 2025
Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, is announcing the launch of its Agentic Platform—a solution that empowers data teams with AI-driven automation—and with it, three additional new technologies, Alation Data Quality (DQ), a Data Products Marketplace, and an Expert Services offering. With the goal of making data management as intuitive and "invisible" as possible, Alation's latest innovations cut through the complexities of data management with AI agents, data trust, reusable data assets, and robust support services.
Posted March 03, 2025
Opkey is releasing its ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform, ushering in a new era of AI-powered transformation for business-critical enterprise applications, combining agentic AI, advanced process mining, observability, and intelligent web automation.
Posted February 28, 2025
Acceldata, the market leader in enterprise data observability, is debuting its new, AI-first data management platform—Agentic Data Management (Agentic DM)—which is engineered to better prepare enterprises for their AI initiatives.
Posted February 27, 2025
The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) is constantly evolving to adapt to changes in technology and application development methods. Once primarily focused on managing physical hardware and software, DBAs now find themselves navigating a complex landscape of cloud technologies, AI-driven automation, and ever-increasing data volumes. Here at the beginning of 2025, let's explore the top five concerns that keep DBAs up at night.
Posted February 27, 2025
Quest Software, a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, data management, and migration, is offering the next iteration of Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and disaster recovery to challenge outdated models and set new standards for proactive defense and rapid recovery.
Posted February 27, 2025
SAP is offering its partners the new SAP Demo Environment 2.0, a platform designed to benefit partners by providing easy access to the entire SAP solution demo portfolio to allows them to effectively communicate the value of SAP solutions. This solution can help customers understand how these tools can address their specific challenges and enhance their businesses, according to SAP.
Posted February 26, 2025
Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English Language in the mid-1970s. It's survived and thrived through the dot-com era and the proliferation of cloud technology. In essence, SQL is a technology that evolves.
Posted February 26, 2025
Sonar, a leading provider of code quality and code security solutions, is acquiring AutoCodeRover, an autonomous AI agent platform for software development—enhancing Sonar's offering with a sophisticated foundation for automatically addressing real-world engineering issues such as debugging, issue remediation, and code refactoring.
Posted February 24, 2025
Microsoft announced its latest breakthrough, Majorana 1, the world's first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture. The company expects it will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.
Posted February 20, 2025
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become the de facto standard for lightweight data exchange across applications, especially within modern web-based platforms. For Oracle APEX developers, JSON plays a crucial role in interacting with RESTful services, persisting configuration settings, and seamlessly handling structured and semi-structured data within Oracle Database environments.
Posted February 19, 2025
As part of Oracle's distributed cloud strategy, the company is launching Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer with NVIDIA GPU configurations and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance with GPU configurations (available in March), featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs to bring enterprise-grade AI, graphics, and high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities directly into any location—including data centers.
Posted February 19, 2025
To help break down the latest and greatest of GenAI, experts joined DBTA's webinar—in partnership with Enterprise AI World—Top Trends in GenAI for 2025, offering the necessary expertise and strategies for navigating the fast-paced AI era.
Posted February 18, 2025
Ataccama, the data trust company, is offering Ataccama Lineage, a new module within its Ataccama ONE unified data trust platform (V16) to provide enterprise-wide visibility into data flows, offering organizations a clear view of their data's journey from source to consumption.
Posted February 13, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in unveiling eight new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, the latest additions to a new generation of enterprise servers that introduce new security capabilities, optimize performance for complex workloads, and boost productivity with management features enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI).
Posted February 13, 2025