We are all going to have to get used to the word metadata. Explaining what it means in simple terms is quite tricky, for it is a genuinely abstract concept. (And let me warn the purists up front that ...

Public cloud providers are replacing internal corporate data centers at a rapid pace. Technology and functions get handed over to a cloud provider. One thing appears to be missing, however: ...

Earlier in 2023, we discussed The Importance of Metadata here in the DBA Corner column. And, indeed, metadata is more important than ever before because it helps us to understand our data. Data ...

One of the most disingenuous arguments in the aftermath of the NSA spying revelations is that the American people shouldn't be concerned about the government hoovering up its sensitive information ...

In January 2014, documents provided by Edward Snowden showed that a Canadian spy agency used a unique identifier to follow thousands of Canadians as they moved about the country. The tracking all ...

CEO and Co-Founder of one of the first data intelligence platforms, BigID, and a privacy, security, and identity expert. Metadata is the lifeblood of modern data management — it's the key to being ...

Before the advent of digital photography, adding information about photographs was easy: You simply wrote in the margins or on the back of a snapshot. Turn it over and there was the information: ...

This is an easy one, MySQL. I don't know where I would be with my online teaching without MySQL. MySQL is a database (see D - Do you speak my language: D is for Database, debug, DNS) program. It is a ...