Healthcare is an ever-evolving industry, driven by a continual increase in new technology, new therapeutics, and a growing population. Much of the healthcare community focuses on leveraging data for better treatments, more timely interventions, and effective cost management. Outside influences,…

As the amount of data organizations collects grows, managing that data becomes increasingly complex. That’s where data governance comes in: the process of managing the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data used in an organization. Snowflake has implemented…

Cloud Armor Coding In the last post, I discussed some of Cloud Armor’s advanced features and how to work around various customized rules. However, this begs the question of how to code for a web-application firewall (WAF) to minimize those…

Cloud Armor Advanced Features In my last post, I discussed a basic Cloud Armor setup and how to tune it. However, I didn’t get into some of the more advanced features that Cloud Armor supports that you will either want…

I recently applied the January 2023 released E-Business Suite Release 12.2 CPU patches following the release document 2916871.1. Below are a few high-level notes that might be helpful for a quick reference for anyone taking up these patches. E-Business Suite…

One truth about technology-focused roles is that mergers and acquisitions will never stop. Companies see value in purchasing proven companies, technology and teams to accelerate growth and break into new markets. As you gain more responsibility in your organization, you…

As machine learning becomes more widely used for automated decision-making, we must identify issues of fairness in ML outcomes. Ensuring fairness in ML is important for several reasons; lack of fairness in machine learning can perpetuate or amplify societal biases…

Organizations usually maintain Oracle licences for Oracle RDBMS Enterprise Edition on a per-core basis. It is possible to use Virtualization Managers to limit the resources assigned to virtual machine “guests”—and, subsequently, the databases within those guests. According to the Oracle Partitioning…

As data transforms every industry, we explore the shifting dynamics of the marketing industry and technology while exploring how data will be affected. Marketing continues to change on two fronts: consumer attention is harder to obtain as their behaviors shift,…

Overview In this blog, we aim to discuss the new MySQL 8.0 feature: invisible indexes and how to manage index visibility. MySQL 8.0 supports invisible indexes, that is, indexes not used by the optimizer. This feature applies to indexes other…