The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

You can’t have a successful data migration if you don’t map it out from the start. Learn what data mapping is and why it’s an important early step in data migration and transformation projects. Data ...

Why Data Mapping Is a Critical Exercise for Corporate Legal Departments Data mapping is the process of figuring out what information a company gathers, where it is kept and how it moves across the ...

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 ...

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Prototyping is my favorite part of programming. I like building new stuff and getting things working. It’s no surprise, then, that I am a big fan of MongoDB and NoSQL in general. Don’t get me wrong: I ...

The initial step in preparing for the onset of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) involves getting a full view of the entire information chain to ensure regulations are met. To be fully ...

LINQ to SQL is more stable and bug-free than most Microsoft version 1 products, but data-oriented .NET developers com-­plain the free O/RM tool doesn't offer the Entity Framework (EF) capability to ...

Explore how SQL Server 2025 reshapes the modern data platform with AI-ready capabilities, developer-first enhancements, hybrid modernisation and practical upgrade readiness guidance. For many years, ...