Once again, in the world of SOA, we need to focus a bit more on data. Let's look at critical data management mechanisms, including abstract data types. Transformation mechanisms, which are part of SOA ...

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

Programming C without variables is like, well, programming C without variables. They are so essential to the language that it doesn’t even require an analogy here. We can declare and use them as ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data is a thorny subject. For a start, we’re not sure how ...

Inventory of issues that occur when one aims to link and combine data sets with different unit types Output of official statistics is increasingly based on integration of different data sources. From ...