John Goodson is a JDBC Expert Panel Member and VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies. Check out his Tech Talk on TheServerSide.com, where he discusses Database Access Technologies.

"Metadata" is one of those techy buzzwords you'll frequently hear in the discourse surrounding internet privacy, storage, and social media. There's an array of applications of metadata — a few of ...

Metadata is one of the more important aspects of data management, yet many data professionals do not understand or simply ignore metadata management. Consider, for example, the metadata that you must ...

Today, nobody argues about the importance of data. It is a given that data must be collected, managed, and analyzed to conduct business successfully in the modern era. But all too often the meaning of ...

When business leaders think about artificial intelligence, they often focus on models, platforms and compute capacity. That focus is understandable. AI has quickly become a board‑level mandate, tied ...

With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread ...