Q&A: Surviving Extreme Automation and the Cloud
Are you a DBA? Larry Ellison wants to eliminate your job. I heard him say so at OpenWorld. Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. Autonomous Databases. Typewriter and Computer used to be job titles, but today those words refer to objects.

The Changing Role of the Modern DBA in a Big Data World
It’s no secret that data management has changed dramatically in the nearly 10 years since the onslaught of “big data.” A decade ago, the relational database management system (RDBMS) ruled the enterprise.

OOW17: Impressions From the Trenches
Back in the early Oughties of this century, I attended a meeting in downtown Chicago at which Oracle announced the imminent release of Oracle Database 10g.

The Future Has Arrived: Big Data took center stage at COLLABORATE 17
The COLLABORATE 17 conference for Oracle professionals has come and gone for 2017. It was an event which illustrated the disruptive changes we are currently experiencing in technology. The age of Big Data has moved the needle for data professionals.

Getting Data into Big Data
The Internet of Things is changing the way we generate data and how we use it to gain insights, but the challenge is still in how we manage this diverse data and store it in a meaningful way.