Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.
SQL is a powerful tool for querying data, and for aggregating it. However, you can't easily use it to draw inferences, to make predictions, or to tease out subtle correlations. To provide ever more sophisticated inferences to businesses, the race is on to combine the power of the relational model with advanced statistical packages. Both IBM and PostGres are ready with solutions. And SQL Server? Hmm...
XML is, it seems, everywhere. SQL Server has ever-improving functionality that helps us peek into, shred, store, manipulate and otherwise utilize XML. This article covers XML variables, XML columns, typed vs. untyped XML, and the xml data type methods.
Question about Byte-Pairing for data compression. If byte pairing converts two byte values to a single byte value, splitting the file in half, then taking a gig file and recusing it 16 times shrinks it to 62,500,000. My question is, is byte-pairing really efficient? Is the creation of a 5,000,000 iteration loop, to be conservative, efficient? I would like some feed back on and some incisive opinions please.
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I'm in the process of learning Scala and I came across a scenario today where I need to map multiple functions over a single piece of data and wondered if there was a formal name for this. It sort of feels like the inverse of map.
I'm not sure this is the correct way of expressing it, but this is what I did:
dmap(x: Object, fns: List[Function]) = fns.map(_(x))
Is there a built in way to do something similar? Is there a formal name for this function?
Many of us went through a scenario like, can us pass a full of C# type/class to the javascript?
Modify from there and again return back to C#? The difficulty is that JavaScript only knows string format comared to C# which has many data types. So how we can pass an entires class to JavaScript? Here we need to handle with JSON serialization techniques.
Web Performance Tests provide a simple means of ensuring correct and performant responses are being returned from your web application. Testing a wide variety of inputs can be tedious without a way to separate test recording and input selection. Data binding provides a convenient and simple way to try an unlimited number of different inputs as part of your web performance tests using Visual Studio 2010.
You may see several articles that talk about Data Governance Program failure; however, I will have a different approach here to capture mistakes that are made when the program is in proposing phase.
Change Data Capture (CDC) records DML operations performed on SQL tables and makes records available with information regarding what changed and when the change happened in a simple way.
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A Web service basically is a collection of open protocols -- XML, SOAP and WSDL -- that is used to exchange data between applications in a platform-independent way.
The Data Manipulation Language (DML) includes the major commands, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT...INTO. Today's article focuses specifically on the uber-useful INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT statements.
The Data Manipulation Language (DML) includes the major commands, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT...INTO. Today's article focuses specifically on the uber-useful INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT statements.
This paper provides a foundation for understanding data replication as well as a discussion of the criteria for selecting an appropriate replication technology.
Make working with SQL a breezeSQL Prompt 5.3 is the effortless way to write, edit, and explore SQL. It's packed with features such as code completion, script summaries, and SQL reformatting, that make working with SQL a breeze. Try it now.
The environmental activist group is sounding an alarm about the carbon footprint created in the transition to cloud computing. It urges IT firms to opt for renewables when they open new data centers.
When you launch an instance and explicitly name it using:
juju deploy lamp website1
Is there a way on the newly created instance to get the data that tells the machine that its:
called website1
or even better:
a unit number such as website1/0, website1/1 etc etc
The reason for doing this is that in my charm I wish to set the hostname to this value.
I did wonder if it was set via ec2metadata but it doesn't seem to list this information.
At times I often want to know what is happening inside my SQL Servers, there are of course a multitude of ways I could "peek" into the activity that has been happening, Sometimes I just need to get a quick summary of those facts, maybe just to know if anything unusal has happened I'm not yet aware of, an easy way I can do that is to query the DMV sys.dm_os_performance_counters, As t here are tons of blog posts already out there on using the data from this DMV, I'm not going to focus...(read more)
In this post I want to show a couple of ways to order the data that comes into the pipeline. a number of people have asked me about this primarily because there are a number of ways to do it but also because some components in the pipeline take sorted inputs. One of the methods I show is visually easy to understand and the other is less visual but potentially more performant.
Self-Service Business Intelligence is the new solution from SQL Server 2008 R2 that enables the end users to access, analyze and share data across the ... read_more.......(read more)
When ot comes to structured data, schema.org for products, Is there a problem in having the same product with 2 different names in 2 different pages for layout reasons?
Example: Category page with many products. Objects appear in smaller divs that don't fit complete name vs product page totally dedicated to one product that fits all the information.
Category Page:
<span itemprop="name">Dell 30" Monitor</span>
Product Page:
<span itemprop="name">Dell UltraSharp 30" LCD Monitor</span>
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Subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services has inked an agreement with Florida attorney general to upgrade security technology in the wake of large-scale data breach.
<b>Google Blog:</b> "So how did this happen? Quite simply, it was a mistake. In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data."
Some people don't seem to learn. The latest lost laptop comes to you courtesy of a Massachusetts-based neurosurgeon whose unencrypted laptop was stolen, putting more than 3,500 patients' most sensitive data at risk.