The Santa Cruz Experiment: Why You Should Care About Big Data

[This was first posted to Technorati on February 6th, 2012. You can read the original here.] I keep hearing the term “Big Data”. My old-school IT instincts always makes me think of inefficiently storing two-letter state abbreviation codes inside of an nvarchar(50) field because that’s the default data type you get when creating a database table … Read more