Feb 27, 2012
This article is about how Singapore is planning to set up a national microchip database for dogs to prevent owners from abandoning them. Before the purchase of a pet dog, they are given a microchip that could track down their location. After the purchase of a license, an owner must register their name and address [...]
Feb 27, 2012
The article that I read was about how astronomers have been using the Sloan telescope at New Mexico’s Apache Point Observatory since 1998 to continuously take pictures of different parts of the universe and store them in a database called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database. More than 100 terabytes were used to store the [...]
Feb 13, 2012
This article is about how a radical protest group named “Anonymous,” known for hacking government and large corporate websites, hacked into CIA’s website last week, which went offline for about an hour. They did this with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which paralyzes servers with waves of data requests. It also took down [...]
Feb 6, 2012
Last Friday, February 3, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued banking’s Big Three– J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, for the use of an electronic mortgage database that took part in the nation’s mortgage crisis. According to the article these companies performed illegal and deceptive practices through this database, called the [...]
Jan 30, 2012
This article is about how Microsoft’s SQL Server, a relational database management system that was known to be more popular among smaller businesses, is now becoming more commonly used in the midmarket data warehouse business as well. SQL Server was commonly thought to be used only to store a few terabytes of data, and people [...]
Jan 8, 2012
This article is about how SQL has become the most desired skill in the IT industry in the United Kingdom. It gave different statistics on the high demand of SQL and SQL server IT jobs. It said that the highest number of permanent jobs in London belonged to web developers at 18,817, and that London [...]
