Business intelligence and corporate performance management are not the same thing. Learn the differences between BI and CPM -- and how they're related -- from expert Rick Sherman.

Get a comprehensive explanation of data modeling and learn about the issue of "design" versus "description" in a data modeling context.

Answer a sample question about LIKE clauses from the IBM DB2 9 Fundamentals certification exam (Exam 730) to prepare you for the test.

Heavens! It is not often that I read about a company (especially a small company) doing something for altruistic reasons. And so it was that I read with great interest an article in yesterday's Denver newspaper about AWhere and its commitment to help African countries adapt to climate change.

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Sun Microsystems has decided that its stock ticker for 21 years just doesn't reflect its new face. The company, formerly known as SUNW, now wants to be known as JAVA. Good move or bad?

And here's a quiz for you -- what does SUNW stand for? Think you know? Read on...

Over the past year, I have enjoyed reading The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs from an anonymous blogger who assumed the persona of Steve Jobs -- Apple's CEO. It was incredible funny, acerbic, and just what you would expect to read from one of the world's most famous and eccentric chief executives. Want to know who Fake Steve really is? Read on.

We communicate mainly by words -- whether spoken or written. Everyone slips up occasionally when speaking but to do so in written form is a major negative. I admit it -- reading poorly written or misworded documents just makes me crazy... (It comes from my childhood -- my Mom always corrected my grammar)

So to save my sanity and to perhaps improve overall communications between people, I offer up this blog based on Jody Gilbert's two articles on the topics of grammatical and wording mistakes "that make you look stupid."

I read with increasing sadness and futility about the massive effort launched to find Jim Gray, world-renown computer scientist. He disappeared on January 28, 2007 while sailing out of San Francisco Bay. After 16 days of intense searching using remarkable technologies, the ad hoc search was disbanded. The conclusion was that he was lost at sea.