Month: May 2009

What is IT?

We have seen so much about IT and all of us have been a part of it by some means or other. We all know...

Information Management and career levels

Deepesh JosephAugust 2006 Information Management (IM) refers to any activity that leads to effective collection, storage, retrieval and analysis of information by focusing on business...

Compare and contrast data warehouse principles

Operational Vs Informational system : Operational Systems are those which are based on current data and thus supports current/day-to-day functioning of a business. Informational Systems...

Various kinds of Database Systems

a. Homogeneous vs. heterogeneous distributed database system Homogeneous database systems involve similar databases distributed over the network (on separate machines). Example of homogeneous database system...

Pros and Cons of normalizing data into 3NF form

Deepesh Joseph February 2009 The main purpose of normalization is to reduce data redundancy and avoid inconsistent data. Normalization leads to separation of unrelated entities...