Databases and Data Warehouses

Green Servers {1}

The software development life cycle (SDLC) that is known focuses on the software and the system itsself and does not take into account of environmental factors normally associated with SDLC. Huang states that recycling at the end of the SDLC is not enough to negate the environmental impact. He include how IT has helped the [...]

The future state of Technology {1}

Have you ever seen the movie “Eagle Eye” and wondered if someone was able to track your every move.  Well that is actually becoming a reality.  Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union reported that there is a “widespread tracking of citizen’s movements” using automated license plate readers.  This technology is reaching a point where it [...]

Normalization Vs Denormalization {0}

In the article “The Design of Optimization Strategy for Physical Data Model” the authors write about that design physical model is very important phase of database design because a well design physical data model will improve the performance of the database. The authors also say that carefully design when using normalization and denormalization also helps [...]

Mamba: New Web Monitor {0}

Summary: In this article, it was about a powerful web base monitor for Oracle Company.  It is a software that can provide better performance for the database administrator of Oracle.  It performs in real-time and can also save time for those that uses this program. It will look for the problems and will quickly fix [...]

Simon Stiphanos – PostgreSQL: Open-source and enterprise ready. {0}

Simon Stiphanos Summary: PostgreSQL, a very advanced open-source database, much like MySQL, has recently released version 9.1 of the community-engineered database. It now ships with new enterprise features like: synchronous replication, unlogged tables (which speed up non-sensitive I\O by not commiting resources to logging interactions), and more. Add to that the many long-time features which [...]

Ch 6.2 Data Warehouse Fundamentals (presentation Blog-Post) {0}

Hi recently read an article which talked about what data warehouse was and how it relates to everyday business. While Data warehousing can be extremly benefitual when it comes to the organization of a sucessful business, it can also be harmful if intentionally missed used as it was in the article i read. The CIA [...]

Ch 6.2 Data Warehouse Fundamentals {0}

The article I found is about Microsoft PowerPivot, one of the new Excel features included in Office 2010. The concept of this new tool is to help managers to build their own reports, and thus they become less dependent on the IT staff. It runs similarly as a table pivot, but it is able to [...]

Ch. 6.2 Data Warehouse Fundamentals {0}

The article I chose is on the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in 2010. In the article the rankings of the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in the United State were given according to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Neighborhood Scout is the company that uses data and information from the FBI [...]

Data Warehouse {0}

Making wine has come a long way from the days of crushing grapes in an oak barrel.  Today, a wine maker in Sonoma now uses technology to aid in his wine making.  Leo McCloskey uses an off-site data warehouse to store digital recipes of the wines he produces.  It has about 35,000 different wines on [...]

Chapter 6 Databases and Data Warehouse {0}

The article that I found takes a look at how some companies are not taking the correct precautions in protecting valuable and high risk data.  Chapter 6.1 takes a thorough approach on Databases and Data Warehouses. A small section in the book emphasizes how important it is to have increased information security or data could [...]

Chapter 6.1: Databases, Quality Information {1}

I first heard about my article on the news Sunday night regarding Verizon Wireless and I was able to find more information about it in the New York Times. As of today Verizon has announced that it’s going to pay back $90 million in refunds to all customers who were wrongfully charged in their monthly [...]

Chapter 6 – Databases {0}

The article that I found talks about the company Gracenote.  Gracenote used their Global Media Database to power many applications today.  Gracenote uses that database to power Itunes and is used when a user downloads a Cd into their library.  Gracenote’s MusicID is used to automatically insert the names of the tracks and artists from [...]

Chapter 6 Sec 2 Data Warehouse {0}

The article that I found talks about I.B.M. and their recent purchase of a data warehouse company called Netezza. The article was published on September 20, 2010 and I found it in The New York Times. Although the purchase made by I.B.M. is recent, many other companies have  made purchases of data warehouse or business [...]

Chapter 6.2-Data Warehouse Fundamentals {0}

Chapter 6.2 Discusses Data Warehousing fundamentals; what it is and how they are used. The article I read was about Asset Intelligence (AI) aquiering Teradata’s platform. AI has based its new enterprise analytics service on a Teradata Data Warehouse appliance platform.  They will be using this to better help “over-the-road” freight carriers, by eliminating blind [...]

Chapter 6: Databases and Data Warehouses {0}

I have found an article that explains how Oracle does their business during the time period where sales on databases were falling about 22%.  Oracle’s overall sales revenue actually fell 5% during that time period.  They deal with sales of databases licenses and applications for many companies or organizations.  Oracle is “the largest supplier of [...]

Chapter 6 – 6.2 Data Warehouse {0}

  Michael Berlin Chapter 6 – 6.2 Data Warehouse       I was able to find a great article about Data Warehousing at stores.org, the information is how “Blockbuster Aims To Improve its Customer Communications.”  Blockbuster’s plan is to use Data Warehousing to collect customer information on how they buy or rent items in the Blockbuster stores.  [...]

Chapter 6 correlation with IBM Adds Informix Data Warehouse Feature to Bolster Database Software {0}

The articles is about IBM has improved the Informix Dynamic Server.   According to Kevin Brown, IBM’s Lead Architect for Informix Database, “the new tools allow [customers] to transform their data into Star Schema for efficient warehouse workloads, With this offering, we are providing the necessary tools to make their jobs that much easier” (www.eweek.com).  Prior [...]

Chapter 6 Dtabasees and Data Warehouses {0}

he Article in the New York Times, “ A Page From an Old Playbook” talked about the efforts that have been made at Hewlett-Packard. Recently Mark V. Hurd took over at the company and realized that the technology being used was far from the standards the computer giant should be known for. Mr. Hurd had [...]

Chapter 6: IS in Business {0}

Thursday, October 1, 2009 Chapter 6: IS in Business The Federal Communications Commission has a bill in the works to provide affordable broadband service to all, which its expected costs range from 20 billion to 350 billion dollars. Its said that 3-6 million americans do not recieve high speed internet and don’t have the helpful [...]

Chapter 6. Databases and data warehouses {0}

The MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release includes the MySQL Enterprise Monitor with the improved MySQL Query Analyzer – now with new correlation graphs for faster performance optimization. We can join this webinar and see a live demonstration of the new MySQL Enterprise Monitor and the improved Query Analyzer. The products are free. Moreover, helps them [...]