Today's businesses are suffering from a data glut, costing them money. Inadequate and erroneous data is making its way into business systems, preventing accurate billing and hindering growth. To stop ...

It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical design topics for ...

Distributed computing is the simultaneous use of more than one computer to solve a problem. It is often used for problems that are so big that no individual computer can handle them. This method of ...

Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word “normalization.” Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling ...