IT leaders in public sector agencies and higher education crave a simpler way to manage their high-availability databases. One path to simplicity is the hyperconverged database platform, which ...

If you’ve worked with relational database systems for any length of time, you’ve probably participated in a discussion (argument?) about the topic of this month’s column, surrogate keys. A great ...

Surrogate means a stand-in, a substitute. Surrogate keys take the place of a natural key as the primary key within a database table. Ideally, surrogate keys stand in the shadows and are used in ...

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform exposed the database keys of 3,300 customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises, that had used a data-science feature available on the platform since 2019, cloud ...

So, a friend of mine and I are tagging up to learn a little with php and mysql. Php is coming along swimmingly, but the mysql is a bit of a challenge right now. Part of what we're working on now is ...

Don’t be the next MongoDB data breach. Close these holes in your MongoDB deployment before it’s too late Security is a trending topic again, thanks to recent data leaks involving big corporations. For ...

Security researchers have begun stumbling upon misconfigured Django applications that are exposing sensitive information such as API keys, server passwords, or AWS access tokens. The main reason for ...

Company access keys, used by developers to authenticate into other systems, are all too frequently being left exposed to the public during the software development process, putting company data at ...

Version 2.0 of XTP builds on the capabilities of the "key-value store" in the previous version, which enable users to look up data values by a unique "key" (data field) by adding support for ...

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...