Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, a theoretical astrophysicist at The University of Texas at Dallas, has spent his career seeking answers to some of the universe's greatest mysteries, including why the ...

Time-series data comes from monitoring changes over time. It’s not a new idea. Changes in rainfall patterns and stock performance figures have been tracked for hundreds of years. Before computers, ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A treasure trove of data released by NASA this week is giving astronomers insight into what the ...

Why does data storage have to be so hard? Drive failures, bit rot, file system errors and more. CPUs and networks seem to just work - why not storage? Entropy, my friend, entropy. The Universe hates ...

If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy of it in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPY command, or a simple <code>"create table foo as select * from ...

The world’s largest digital sky survey has released its second edition of data, a mammoth 1.6 petabytes of data that makes it the largest volume of astronomical information ever released. Just for ...