In his book, "Business at the Speed of Thought", Bill Gates described how an enterprise's information system, or EIS, should act like a "digital nervous system." When a heavy object falls on a finger ...

The heart of any relational database management system is the system catalog that documents the database objects and system settings being used. The system catalog offers a wealth of information about ...

An information management system collects and manages data that is stored in a variety of formats and makes it accessible to the people who need it. Often, a small business needs only to manage office ...

Temporal database systems are designed to capture and manage data that varies over time, thereby accommodating historical and time‐sensitive information. These systems integrate temporal dimensions ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have ...

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