John Goodson is a JDBC Expert Panel Member and VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies. Check out his Tech Talk on TheServerSide.com, where he discusses Database Access Technologies.

Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days. DBAs are increasingly being called upon to deal with the quality of the data in their database systems more than ever ...

Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run. When I was tasked with modernizing our enterprise document ...

What if the key to unlocking smarter, faster, and more precise data retrieval lay hidden in the metadata of your documents? Imagine querying a vast repository of technical manuals, only to be ...

The heart of any relational database management system is the system catalog that documents the database objects and system settings being used. The system catalog offers a wealth of information about ...

Research Fellow, Lead of 'Technologies and Rule of Law' Stream, UNSW Sydney After watching this year’s media raids and the prosecution of lawyers and whistleblowers, it’s not hard to see why ...