databases

Many people these days don’t know InnoDB was originally developed as an independent database engine apart from MySQL. Its author, Heikki Tuuri, modeled InnoDB after Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques, the seminal transaction processing book authored by Turing Award laureate James “Jim” Gray and Andreas Reuter. It wasn’t until later InnoDB was integrated with MySQL. While InnoDB […]

There’s something for having job security and many of the solutions that I see offered for RDBMS challenges offer just that. With compliance with EU’s GDPR, (General Data Protection Regulations) just around the corner, (mark you calendar, May 25, 2018) you’d think we’d all be scrambling for a simpler solution to discovering and addressing all that GDPR data.

Quick refresher for those of you going, “What is GDPR?”

Data security is a known focus of GDPR when you talk to folks, but it’s much more than just security.  It’s about extended rights of the individual in the EU. There’s four areas as a DBA, you need to really concern yourself with: