Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged ...

Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthenticated file operations and even remote code execution. The ...

Abstract: The goal of this project is to demostrate the use of PySpark and Spark SQL to query and analyze the Yelp Open Dataset. Specifically, the aim is to analyze the Yelp Reviews dataset, which ...

This project adds full support for time zones to Microsoft SQL Server. This implementation uses the industry standard IANA time zone database. If you are used to Microsoft Windows time zones, such as ...

Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. is teaming up with Snowflake Inc. to make a library of Neo4j’s graph analytics functions available in the Snowflake cloud. The deal announced today allows users to ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

The automation of repetitive tasks has become part of today’s workplace, whether CPAs are engaged in industry, governmental, not-forprofit, or public accounting. This automation can consist of ...

The focus of this article is on using Microsoft Purview to enable access to user data as well as specific system metadata in SQL Server 2022 running on Azure Arc–enabled servers. With the SQL Server ...

Abstract: Data skipping reduces I/O for SQL queries by skipping over irrelevant data objects (files) based on their metadata. We extend this notion by allowing developers to define their own data s ...