The world runs on data. A hallmark of successful businesses is their ability to use quality facts and figures to their advantage. Unfortunately, data rarely arrives ready to use. Instead, businesses ...

Navigating the world of data management can often feel like a daunting task, especially when faced with messy datasets that seem to defy order. If you’ve ever spent hours manually cleaning data in ...

It's time for spring cleaning, including your enterprise data stores, says data expert Joey D'Antoni, who offers front-line data-hygiene advice straight from the IT trenches. "Data can be one of our ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.” I love this quote from organizational theorist Geoffrey Moore because of the implications ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...