When non-DBAs think about what it is that a DBA does, performance monitoring and tuning are usually the first tasks that come to mind. This should not be surprising. Almost anyone who has come in ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Basically all the digital information we use on a daily ...

Nearly all organizations rely on computer and information technology (IT) to conduct business and to operate efficiently. Computer systems analysts work with specific types of computer systems—for ...

Analyzes design of data systems, including data stored in file systems, database management systems and physical data organizations. Studies calculus of data models, query languages, concurrency and ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Management information systems (MIS) is a discipline that sits at the intersection of the business and computing disciplines. MIS is an increasingly important discipline as it supports organizations ...

Data Analysis: Retrospecting historical data for trend analysis and problem diagnosis.

Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies. There are certain functions in database administration, that are good candidates for automation. These are the nuts and bolts of the ...

A database is a collection of related records, and each record contains one or more data fields. Business databases may reside on desktop hard drives, corporate servers or remote servers. Small ...

With the growing interest in adopting best practices across IT departments, particularly according to standards such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), many organizations are ...

When Propre Japan, a provider of real estate data that helps property buyers keep track of the property market, was using an open source database on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its platform, it ...