Certification Survey Extra: Time to security certification
So it’s probably time for a brief recap: With our most recent survey of certified IT professionals, we switched things up. After spending the last few years gathering salary data for every issue of …
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Test your knowledge of SQL
There are some things that you just don’t forget. For me, one of those was the thought I had the first time I was exposed to SQL: “This is supposed to better than what we have now?” To say that I was overwhelmed is to put it kindly. Particularly in light of the fact that …
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Survey feedback improves PRINCE2 project management guidelines
The delivery of successful projects now represents some 21 percent of the U.S. economy, or a massive $3.78 trillion dollars. That key finding comes from the Global Benchmark Report recently …
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Cause for Hope uses IT to help poor families in developing nations
In military terms, a “force multiplier” means “a capability that, when added to and employed by a combat force, significantly increases the combat potential of that force and thus enhances the probability …
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You can’t strike it rich collecting and analyzing Big Data without a plan
The mystique of Big Data is that, given sufficient data and applied mathematics, we can finally unpack the chaos and understand the true effects of our actions (Clarke, 2016). We can identify the butterfly flapping …
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The best Big Data certifications for IT newcomers
Historically, I’ve considered myself an “old school” database administrator (DBA). For me, database performance must be a second priority behind a tightly controlled schema that constrains data …
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