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Feed: Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; Finance & Accounting is now the most automated business function. When analyzing the automations that 900 of our clients built last year as part of our Work Automation Index, we found that 26% of an organization’s automations, on average, fall under finance; this trumps IT’s share, the runner up, by a full percentage point. This insight only scratches the surface. You can read on to discover additional finance automation statistics that showcase how the department is approaching automation to tackle their challenges. See how every department leverages automation You can access our Work Automation Index ... Read More

Feed: Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; As HR teams look to deliver better experiences for candidates and employees, they have a variety of levers to choose from—and automation, as it turns out, is becoming an increasingly popular one to pull. When analyzing the automations that 900 midsize and enterprise organizations built on our platform from February, 2021 through January, 2022, we found that HR teams are increasing the number of automations they bring to market by leaps and bounds. Moreover, these automations span various areas, including talent acquisition, onboarding, and payroll. We’ll cover this department-wide trend further by sharing the most ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Andrej Hadji-Vasilev; Online Dating Statistics: User Data The number of users on online dating apps and sites continues to increase. 1. The Number of Dating App Users Grew to 323.9 Million in 2021 Even though dating apps have been around for a lot longer than five years, they have exploded in popularity since 2016, when there were 240.9 million dating app users worldwide. In 2021, that number jumped up to 323.9 million users. Millions of Dating App Users Worldwide 2. 19% of Internet Users Are Currently Using an Online Dating Platform In a recent study, 19% of ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. The sheer cleverness of relational databases is often discounted because we so frequently use them for very simple data management tasks.Serialize an object into a row, store with unique key. yawwwn Search for unique key, deserialize row into an object. yawwwwwwn The real power of relational databases is juggling "relations" (aka tables) in large numbers and figuring out on-the-fly the most effective way to filter out rows and find an answer. PostgreSQL has an undeniably clever query planning system that auto-tunes based on the data in the system. It samples tables to gain statistics about the distribution ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; The ways we watch shows and movies — and how we listen to music — have changed dramatically over the last decade. Gone are the days of visiting your local video rental store or waiting a whole week to catch the next episode of your favorite show. On-demand subscription services have taken hold, so let’s look at the top streaming services statistics for 2022. Key Takeaways: The streaming industry is constantly growing, with more streaming services available every year. The streaming industry is expected to be worth $330 billion by 2030.A staggering 85% of U.S ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; The Top 26 Data Privacy Statistics You Need to Know Here are 26 data privacy statistics that will give you a better idea of how companies collect and use personal data, what the general public thinks of this prying behavior and how widespread the problem is. 1. How Much of Your Traffic Is Being Tracked? A study by WhoTracks.Me found that around 82 percent of web traffic contains third-party scripts by Google, and almost half of them are confirmed to be tracking you. That’s around 40  percent of web traffic being tracked by Google alone ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Anthony Sotolongo – May 19, 2022 A statistic corruption on TOAST chunk case Introduction PostgreSQL stores data on a page that usually has 8KB of size, this means that when there isn’t enough space to store the data (for example, text or varchar data type), PostgreSQL uses the TOAST technique which allows us to store this extra data like chunks using other tables, each chunk is stored as a separate row in the TOAST table belonging to the main table. The users don’t need to know if the information is stored on TOAST. PostgreSQL transfers/obtains the data ... Read More

Feed: Workato. Author: Nicole Lee; In our increasingly digital age, automation is synonymous with driverless cars and robots in the checkout queue. But automation can also mean added assistance in the workplace, especially with menial tasks that you probably wouldn’t want to spend the bulk of your time and productivity on. These functions range from automatically streamlining data to reducing the steps needed to fulfill an action. Most execs already know that streamlining operations is important — according to an MIT Sloan survey, executives at 91% of companies say digital technologies have the potential to fundamentally transform the way companies ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Abstract: By diving into the details of our case study, we will explain how incorrect table statistics may lead the optimizer to choose a suboptimal execution plan. We will also go into how MySQL calculates the table statistics and the ways to correct the table statistics to prevent it from happening again. Case study: Incorrect table statistics lead the optimizer to choose a poor execution plan. A customer reported a drastic performance degradation of a query while there were no code changes and no configuration changes made. The data in this article has been ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon CloudWatch announces support for additional statistics such as percentiles on CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. Now with these additional statistics you can gain increased visibility on metric patterns and trends, to more effectively monitor the health and performance of your applications. Metric Streams enable you to keep your Observability tools updated with the most recent metric data from your applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You can use Metric Streams to send metrics to AWS Partner solutions including ... Read More