A bit on SQL Standards
SQL (Structured Query Language) for relational databases was maintained and standardised by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the …
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A Brief Talk on Databases
Databases have been around since ancient times, when elaborate database systems were deployed by governments, hospitals and organisations to keep …
Read Article →Cloud Computing – The Refute
Cloud is great, but when you know what you are doing, think about alternatives (Blippex, 2013).
What is Cloud?
“The cloud” is a term given …
Read Article →Auditing Organisational Information Systems – Security
Auditing an organisation?s information systems is a vital part of operating a business at any decent scale. Particularly from a security standpoint …
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What is Biometric Technology?
Biometric verification is any means by which a person can be uniquely identified by evaluating one or more …
Read Article →Copyright Compensation in the Internet Age
The original conception of copyright in 1710 (Craig Joyce, n.d.) was that it usually covers only the expression of a particular idea and not the idea …
Read Article →Controlling employee digital access
Organisations of all sizes have taken to controlling what their employees can access in order to conserve computing resources, keep their employees …
Read Article →Electronic monitoring in the workplace
Electronic monitoring is not a new thing, nor one that only affects the workplace. From closed circuit television (CCTV) in stores and down many …
Read Article →The Therac-25 Case Study – What Actually Happened?
The Therac-25 was a computerised medical technology radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982.
Between 1985 …
Read Article →Your Responsibilities as an IT Professional
As an IT professional it is extremely important to make sure that you do not take advantage of your position on being able to introduce certain skewed …
Read Article →New capabilities with technology
Computing technology has undoubtedly had some very prominent impact on society at large.
Of the almost countless capabilities that it has brought us, …
Read Article →The Printing Press – Technology’s impact on society
It’s important to first define what the term “technology” means.
Technology is “the application of scientific knowledge for …
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