Articles & Books From Databases

Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-25-2022
A data lake is an enterprise-scale home for analytical data from all corners of your company or governmental agency. No matter what your analytical data landscape looks like today, your organization will benefit from building a data lake. © Stuart Miles / Shutterstock.comFive phases to building a data lakeYour data lake journey begins with a thorough understanding of today’s analytics and data throughout your entire organization.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-25-2022
Whether you’re a small business owner or work for a global corporation, you deal with information every day. You receive information, you send it, you determine what’s relevant, and you make decisions, whether consciously or subconsciously, about what information to retain. That’s why records management — managing the flood of information you get every day — should be such an important part of your business strategy.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
SAS Institute offers hundreds of SAS products, and sometimes it's difficult to decide which tool you should use for your work. Here is a partial list of SAS products you might encounter and who uses them for what purpose. As a SAS customer, you might use just one of these products or a few of them; if you're really lucky, you might use them all.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
A fundamental part of a successful records and information management program is identifying what records and information your company possesses and then applying appropriate retention periods. Records appraisal. There are different methods for appraising your records and information, including inventories, interviews, and questionnaires.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The amount of electronic information has grown exponentially over the past decade. Local (C: Drives) and network drives are becoming digital graveyards. An effective records management program will provide you with the knowledge and tools you need to ensure that electronic files are properly managed. Folder structures and names.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Properly managing your records can help you reduce operating expense, enhance customer service and ensure your company is in compliance with laws and regulation. Reduce operating expense. Properly managing your records and information means that you only retain for a specific timeframe what you need for operational, legal, and compliance purposes and then appropriately dispose of it.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office cover a wide range of SAS capabilities. These SAS tasks are easy-to-use interfaces that create SAS programs to do their work. The programs call on SAS procedures, where each procedure represents a specialized capability. And to make it even more interesting, SAS (the company) provides these procedures in product bundles, which must be separately licensed for customers to use them.
NoSQL For Dummies
Get up to speed on the nuances of NoSQL databases and what they mean for your organizationThis easy to read guide to NoSQL databases provides the type of no-nonsense overview and analysis that you need to learn, including what NoSQL is and which database is right for you. Featuring specific evaluation criteria for NoSQL databases, along with a look into the pros and cons of the most popular options, NoSQL For Dummies provides the fastest and easiest way to dive into the details of this incredible technology.
Hadoop For Dummies
Let Hadoop For Dummies help harness the power of your data and rein in the information overload Big data has become big business, and companies and organizations of all sizes are struggling to find ways to retrieve valuable information from their massive data sets with becoming overwhelmed. Enter Hadoop and this easy-to-understand For Dummies guide.
Oracle 12c For Dummies
Demystifying the power of the Oracle 12c databaseThe Oracle database is the industry-leading relational database management system (RDMS) used from small companies to the world’s largest enterprises alike for their most critical business and analytical processing. Oracle 12c includes industry leading enhancements to enable cloud computing and empowers users to manage both Big Data and traditional data structures faster and cheaper than ever before.