The integrity of database systems is increasingly dependent on maintaining high data quality while enforcing robust consistency rules. Data quality encompasses the accuracy, completeness, and ...

Normally a reseller agreement between two vendors wouldn’t be worthy of much note. But a recent decision by EMC to resell middleware technologies developed by Informaticaillustrates how approaches to ...

Developers interested in gauging the security of open source components have an abundant number of choices, but they still have to choose to use the information to audit the components in their ...

Many developers are tasked with writing unit tests as test-first design and development becomes commonplace, even on teams that aren't strictly practicing Agile methodologies. Test-driven development ...

The US offers the “final” revisions to second-quarter GDP alongside annual data revisions. Declining real-time date reliability means that revisions matter to economists. US growth data is generally ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Couchbase refers to its core technology as a modern database, not an old fashioned one. What the ...

Finally, several months later than it should, the Federal Reserve will cut rates today. Stressing data dependency when data are not dependable has led to this unnecessary delay. The Fed has been lucky ...