As Statistics Editor of Baseline magazine, Regina creates interactive tools, worksheets and project guides for technology managers. Before joining Ziff Davis, she worked as a technical program manager for a database company, where her projects included data management applications in XML, Java, Visual Basic and ASP. Her other experience includes running the new media department at Christie's Inc. and writing and editing for Internet World and PC Magazine. Regina received a B.A. from Yale.
The cost of storage may be falling, but are you reaping the benefits? Probably not, according to Bill Inmon, creator of the data warehouse concept. “Were using storage at a rate that far surpasses the rate at which prices are dropping,” he says. Corporate data warehouses, which collect far more detail than standard databases and […]
The cost to businesses from the SQL Slammer Worm ran into the billions of dollars, according to many analyst estimates. The 376-byte packet of code slowed network traffic to a crawl in January by forcing unpatched installations of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to spew replicas of the worm over the Internet. But even though malicious […]