How to Position your Database Start Up
I have been speaking with a lot or new database vendors over the last 12 months and this has prompted…
Positioning your Database Start Up for Enterprise OLTP
It is important to realize that there is less diversity in the enterprise OLTP market than at any point in…
#16: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:It’s all in the…
Death Of The Relational Database
A recent entry by Tony Bain in his excellent 'Innovations in Data Management' blog caught me a little by surprise.…
Relational Databases Get a Hard Time
Image via WikipediaThe NoSQL event has triggered a bit of a hard time for the RDBMS the last week. I…
The election in Iran and some real data analysis
Syndicated from BeyeNetworkIn 2005, Mr Ahmadinejad got 17 million votes and in 2009 he got 24 million.The question is, where…
Resolving Many-to-Many Relationships
Ever have one of those long, back and forth email exchanges where when you’re done you feel as if you’ve…
First Look – IBM and SPSS
I got a chance to catch up with the folks from IBM/Cognos to discuss their (fairly) recent announcement of a…
Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency
We’re clearly entering a new era in government transparency, and we can hope that allowing citizens to access information interactively…
R makes a T-shirt
Here's a new use for R: designing T-shirts for a band: Despite having a cool name, "The Probable Error of…
