John Goodson is a JDBC Expert Panel Member and VP of Research and Development at DataDirect Technologies. Check out his Tech Talk on TheServerSide.com, where he discusses Database Access Technologies.

Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days. DBAs are increasingly being called upon to deal with the quality of the data in their database systems more than ever ...

Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

Today, nobody argues about the importance of data. It is a given that data must be collected, managed, and analyzed to conduct business successfully in the modern era. But all too often the meaning of ...

From the Spring 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 17. A federal court in New York… From the Spring 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 17. A federal court in New York City ruled in ...

With the Senate passing the Federal Government’s data retention bill last week, there has been a great deal of discussion of “metadata”, what it is and whether the government ought to have access to ...

Metadata has been a popular topic for several years, but in many cases, the discussions have fallen short. Frequently, the topic of preserving metadata during file transfer is discussed, but this use ...

Struggling with MCP authentication? The November 2025 spec just changed everything. CIMD replaces DCR's complexity with a ...