IRI Business
Eclipse: A Brief History
Eclipse was originally started by IBM in the late 1990s in response to the need for a common development platform for all IBM products. Read More
IRI Business
IRI Business
Data Migration
What is Unicode?
Unicode began as a project in 1987 between Apple and Xerox engineers in response to a need for an international standard of representation for every character in all major languages of the world. Read More
VLDB
Database Reorgs – Why They Matter
Database Reorgs: Why They Matter, and the Difference between On-Line and Off-Line
Database reorgs are performed to save data space and improve database efficiency and performance. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Data Privacy Breaches at All Time High
Data privacy breaches are becoming more and more prevalent and common in the United States today. Â Did you know that on average, as many as 72,000 documented breaches of personally identifiable information (i.e. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
Delivering Business Intelligence Faster [video]
What is business intelligence, and why is its rapid creation and delivery important?
Business intelligence, or BI, refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting and analyzing business data. Read More
Big Data
Unload Very Large Databases
One of the main concerns DBAs who need to unload big data from very large database (VLDB) tables have is speed. Faster unloading makes data accessible in different forms for different purposes and platforms. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
What is Data Pseudonymization?
This article deals with pseudonymization as one method of de-identifying or anonymizing sensitive data.
The unauthorized use or misuse of our personally identifiable information (or PII) — such as name, social security number, date of birth, mother’s maiden name, place of birth, etc. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Data Masking and Encryption Are Different [video]
It is a common mistake to refer to data masking and data encryption interchangeably to mean the same things. While field-level encryption is considered one of many possible “data masking” functions, we define data masking and encryption as technically distinct processes below. Read More
IRI Business
CoSort 9.5 … New Features
Editors Note (2019): CoSort Version 10 began shipping in Q3 2018, and is now the general release of the product, as well as the foundation of the IRI Voracity data management platform and other IRI products compatible with SortCL (including FieldShield, NextForm, and RowGen).
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IRI Workbench
Creating a Metadata File for a CSV Data File…
This demonstration shows how to create a metadata file for a CSV data file. A metadata file contains the definitions of data sources or targets such as flat files, database tables and pipes. Read More
Data Migration
Introduction to IRI FACT, Fast Extract [video]
IRI FACT (Fast Extract) rapidly unloads huge tables in Oracle, Sybase, DB2 UDB, MySQL, SQL Server, Altibase, Greenplum, Teradata, and Tibero to flat files. FACT uses native drivers and parallelization technologies to unload up to 7X faster than other methods. Read More