Data Migration
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, 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 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)
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
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
This article deals with pseudonymization as one method of de-identifying or anonymizing sensitive data. IRI publishes more in-depth information on the topic in its learning center article on pseudonymization here. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
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
IRI Workbench
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
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
Data Migration
IRI NextForm converts, replicates, federates, and reports on data in multiple sources and targets. There are six editions that specialize on different migration goals: Lite Edition – basic file conversions, COBOL edition – migrates MF COBOL, MF-ISAM, Acucobol, DBMS edition – database migration, Legacy edition – extracts data from hundreds of legacy sources, Modern edition – addresses cloud, SaaS, and big data sources, and Premium edition – which customizes your migrations for any of these data types, sources, and targets. Read More
