The Database Report – January 2002
The DBMS market in the fourth quarter of 2001 was marked more by rhetoric than reality. There were no new DBMS versions released by the major vendors, but …
The Database Report – October 2001
As I write this edition of The Database Report it is just one week after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City and the …
The Database Report – July 2001
Well, it has been quite an eventful quarter in the database market. During the past quarter we have seen a major acquisition, updated market share estimates, …
The Database Report – April 2001
Well, another quarter has gone by and many skirmishes have been fought in the database wars. As usual, Oracle is making the most noise and has the most news. …
The Database Report – January 2001
Welcome to the first edition of a regular quarterly column I will be writing for TDAN.com called The Database Report. Regular readers of the column will be …
The eDBA and Data Availability
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 What is meant by the term e-business? There is a lot of marketing noise surrounding e-business and sometimes the messages …
An Update on the Database Wars
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 The Big Three DBMS vendors continue to fight the database wars. With new features, claims, benchmarks, ad campaigns, and …
Through the Looking Glass
Often times, when the business of Information Technology frustrates me, I look for inspiration in what may seem at first glance to be odd places. For instance, …
What is Knowledge and Can it Be Managed
As the decade, and indeed, the millenium begins to draw to a close, the promise of technology is prevalent in all we do, see, hear, and
Using Check Constraints to Simulate Domains
All of the popular RDBMS products provide table check constraints: Oracle, Informix, DB2, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server. Check constraints enable enhanced …