In 1998, the FBI launched the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), a database that federally licensed gun dealers use to determine whether a prospective buyer is eligible to ...

All large organizations, and a whole lot of small ones, use databases. These tools keep names, dates, numbers and other tidbits of information neatly in order, organized into tables by common ...

The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

Increasing concerns over security breaches from external and internal threats, regulatory compliance requirements from HIPAA, the HITECH Act, PCI DSS, and other mandates, plus the migration from ...

With Web services now becoming a viable technology, enterprises are beginning to see real return on investment from this technology. Web services represent a less invasive, less costly, and ...

Twenty years ago, my development team built a natural language processing engine that scanned employment, auto, and real estate advertisements for searchable categories. I knew that we had a difficult ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...