AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...

Synthesizing tables—creating artificial datasets that closely resemble real ones—plays a crucial role in supervised machine learning (ML), with a wide range of practical applications. These include ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

When object-oriented programming languages began to be used in enterprise applications, designers had problems fitting the object-oriented model with the relational model. In the object-oriented model ...

Referential integrity (RI)is a method for ensuring the “correctness” of data within a DBMS. People tend to oversimplify RI, stating that it is merely the identification of relationships between ...

In the quest to teach software to understand language, scientists have mainly focused on text as a source of data to help train their algorithms. Among other things, text is used to populate a ...

When it comes to providing reliable, flexible, and efficient object persistence for software systems, today's designers and architects are faced with many choices. From the technological perspective, ...

Airtable is an online platform for creating, using, and sharing small relational databases. It’s not ready for enterprise users yet (that’s coming), but right now, if you want help managing data for ...