Mar 12, 2012
The article I read about was quite short but interesting nonetheless. I was about a yearly competition that is held called the Pwn2Own, which is a hacking competition in which teams of people compete to hack systems and devices. With the growth in popularity of smart phones, Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann set there sight on [...]
Mar 5, 2012
My article was about Microsoft acquiring Zoomix, which was a small company based out of Jerusalem. Zoomix is known for there accelerator data-quality technology. Microsoft plans to use the data-quality technology within its future releases of SQL Server Database Software. According to Zoomix’s website, “Accelerator software combines semantic and linguistic analysis with machine learning to [...]
Feb 27, 2012
When Mark Hurd became Hewlett-Packard’s President in 2005, he noticed that as a technology company, they were failing in one area internally. They had no central system that collected all their companies data together into what Mr. Hurd liked to call “a single version of the truth.”(Vance 2008) Mark Hurd used to head the [...]
Feb 20, 2012
In the article that I read, James Cohen goes over a massive web attack dubbed the “LizaMoon.” The attack was made possible due to an SQL Flaw in which malicious code was injected into the SQL databases that ran many websites. This would then direct users browsers to a new site where a fake antivirus [...]
Feb 13, 2012
My article is on an event that took place last December. It involves a Video Game Developer know as Team Meat and their PC version of the game Super Meat Boy. Super Meat Boy is a single player game that tests peoples platforming skills(think Mario Brothers on Crack) and allows users to [...]
Feb 6, 2012
My article was on the differences of logical database modeling versus physical database modeling. It begins by briefly describing the two before jumping into full detail of each individually. For logical modeling it’s mostly what we have learned in class already. It’s gathering the requirements, entities, relationships and conveying them into a model. The deliverables [...]
Jan 30, 2012
The peer reviewed journal I chose was about normalization in general and how some textbooks may have different reasons for normalizing. Carpenter goes on to discuss “E.F. Codd, the acknowledged father of relational database and normalization.” Codd’s normalization is attaching attributes to primary keys like we have discussed in class. Carpenter then mentions Hoffer et [...]
Jan 23, 2012
The peer-reviewed journal I read discussed reasons that students have trouble grasping and learning data modeling. The main reason being that students have a hard time identifying the relationships among the entities, and not so much in how to express the relationships. Students who do not learn how to identify relationships and thus create them [...]
Jan 16, 2012
The article briefly describes the benefits of data modeling and how it helps a company and its projects. It then immediately jumps into the seven common mistakes that occur. The First mistake is thinking that the data model is a final structure. This kind of thinking is incorrect, since the data model should be thought [...]
Jan 8, 2012
The article describes how “big data,” which is large amounts of data that is being collected today and in the future, are becoming the norm with most large companies and scientific researches. A panel at a Silicon Valley event that occurred about a month back in December of 2011 discussed how “big data” is entering [...]
