Feed: Microsoft Azure Community Events. Author: . COST: FREELEVEL: BeginnerIn a data-driven world, the need for data platforms to be open, secure and flexible to your needs is more important than ever. Microsoft has the most complete cloud platform and solutions for all your data needs, with the Microsoft assurance of trust and security built into all aspects of our technology to serve your business needs. Unlock the potential of your dataData Discovery Days is your opportunity to explore Azure Data Services through discussions and demonstrations by the best in the field. Unlock the full potential of your business by ... Read More

Feed: What's New. CloudFormation has added support for the following new resources:AWS::SecretsManager::ResourcePolicyUse the AWS::SecretsManager::ResourcePolicy resource to define a resource-based policy and attach it to a secret that's stored in Secrets Manager.AWS::SecretsManager::RotationScheduleUse the AWS::SecretsManager::RotationSchedule resource to configure rotation for a secret.AWS::SecretsManager::SecretUse the AWS::SecretsManager::Secret resource to create a secret and stores it in Secrets Manager.AWS::SecretsManager::SecretTargetAttachmentUse the AWS::SecretsManager::SecretTargetAttachmentresource to complete the final link between a Secrets Manager secret and its associated database. AWS::DLM::LifecyclePolicyUse the AWS::DLM::LifecyclePolicy resource to create a lifecycle policy for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager. Secrets Manager Dynamic reference:Use the secretsmanager dynamic reference to retrieve entire secrets or secret values that are ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Certificate Manager lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. With AWS Certificate Manager, there is no additional charge for provisioning public or private SSL/TLS certificates you use with ACM-integrated services, such as Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon API Gateway. You pay for the AWS resources you create to run your application. There is no additional charge for using AWS Certificate Manager with HIPAA eligibility. If you have a BAA in place with AWS, you can immediately ... Read More

Feed: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Federico Bozzini. It’s a fact: your friends have more friends than you do.Life isn’t a popularity contest. Which is just as well, because if it was based on the number of friends you have compared with the number your friends have, you’re likely to lose. The reassuring news is that it’s the same for pretty much all of us, thanks to the friendship paradox.Sociologist Scott L. Field’s 1991 paper, ‘Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do’, identified the friendship paradox phenomenon. It’s based on the logic that the mean number of friends of friends ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; Business owners may find themselves faced with a choice between Egnyte Connect and Dropbox Business. The former is our favorite enterprise file sync and share provider, while the latter is the business version of an excellent service with 500 million users. In this article, we’re going to pit Egnyte Connect vs Dropbox Business to find out which is better for you. Our best EFSS list features both competitors. Egnyte Connect is the overall winner and Dropbox Business comes in second place. That said, we’re going to see if the order is the same in this ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; It’s tough to get your bearings in the wide world of cloud storage services. That’s why we’re going to help you decide with this Egnyte Connect vs. OneDrive for Business comparison. Egnyte Connect is our overall top EFSS providers, while OneDrive for Business comes in a little lower among our best EFSS providers. However, there’s a strong case to be made for both. Cloud storage services can focus on different factors, such as sync, security or sharing. We’re going to pick the most important ones and use them to make five rounds for this head-to-head ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Jesper Krogh; The other day, I was reading a blog by Magnus Hagander about tracking foreign keys throughout a schema in PostgreSQL. I thought it was a good idea, so I decided to look at how you can track foreign key in MySQL. The way I decided to do it was to start out with a table, then find all tables referencing the table by a foreign key. From this basic (and simple as it will be shown) query, it is possible to create a chain of relations. The key table for the queries is information_schema.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dave Stokes; JSON has proven to be a very import data format with immense popularity. A good part of my time for the last two or so years has been dedicated to this area and I even wrote a book on the subject.  This is a comparison of the implementations of handling JSON data in MySQL and MariaDB. I had requests from the community and customers for this evaluation. JSON Data Types Are Not All Equal MySQL added a JSON data type in version 5.7 and it has proven to be very popular.  MariaDB has  JSON ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. Bill Vorhies of Data Science Central and Rick Negrin of MemSQL recently delivered a webinar on data lakes and the use of Hadoop in the age of operational machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). In this blog post, we summarize some of the key points from the webinar, as a preview for the webinar. You can also view the recorded webinar at any point. Businesses need flexible access to their data to make the best decisions. Unfortunately, the systems in use today impose complexity and structural delays. MemSQL, a fast, fully scalable relational ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS CodePipeline now makes it easier to perform actions such as deployments, builds, or tests in multiple regions from a single pipeline. Previously, you needed to set-up a pipeline in a region in order for CodePipeline to perform actions in that region. Now, you can add cross-region actions such as additional region deployments to help improve your application's latency and availability ... Read More