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Database refers to a large collection of information or data that is organized for storage and retrieval for a variety of uses.

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Which tech conference do you intend to attend in person next year or have already participated in this year, and what motivated your choice?

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Will generative AI be a tool of misinformation & risk to civilization & humanity?

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Is there an online course/training/program that has really made a huge impact on you and your career?

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With AI Chat having publicly exploded on the scene in the past few months, though still very early days, where do you see it being most disruptive in your business?

Sales/Marketing20%

Competitive Analysis38%

Product Innovation25%

Training10%

Business Forecasting3%

Other (please note in the comments)1%

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What activities do you do to measure the value of sending your team to training?

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How do you see AI benefiting IT departments and managed IT services provider in the future? Will it eliminate jobs or shift jobs in positions to work with AI?

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Does your CRM's customer data include their history (phone, email, address etc)?

What tool(s) are you using for SQL Server Database Monitoring (besides just SSMS)? Specifically, I am wanting the following features:
- Alerting with possibility of sending a ticket to Service Now
- Deadlock alerts
- SSIS Job Failures
- Query Optimization Recommendations
- SQL Server Optimization Recommendations
- Point in time report to see what was being ran during a certain period of time
- Other features?

With Wiz adding ”DSPM” or rather data classification, do you see there being much need for DSPM on top of CSPM? I feel like the DLP and Detection and Response are way more important than CSPM checks, but is that just me?

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What have been your experiences with using OData with Java and/or .Net?

What has your experience been when reviewing 3rd party vendor innovation/solutions, not just the pitch (which I am sure was mind blowing) but actually looking under the hood at the tech: For the most part, has it been:

Better than expected12%

Exactly as expected61%

Not as good as expected26%

Nothing but vaporware1%

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Which approach to software development do you believe will yield the most significant benefits for our company?

Agile methodology46%

Waterfall methodology44%

DevOps methodology9%

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How are you approaching the journey to increase data maturity within your organization? Could you share the key steps or frameworks you've implemented to scale data capabilities, improve data governance, and foster a data-driven culture across departments? What have been the most significant challenges you've faced, particularly in aligning data strategy with business goals, securing executive buy-in, or overcoming technical limitations? How do you ensure continuous progress in areas like data literacy, quality, and analytics innovation?

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Does anyone have some proven successful experience with using either in-house-built or off-the-shelf Test Data Management processes and tools? As we are looking to mature our SDLC - we are focusing on shortening our lead time for delivery. We are at the point where we recognized the value proposition in this area, and investigating and identifying some of our next experiments related.

The use of the lake in the cloud has impacted an increase in cloud costs. I'm considering doing a TCO study to bring some workloads to our datacenter in house. Has anyone gone through or is going through this challenge?

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We are in the middle of a modernization process of our monolith core application (banking) that is based on Informix and aiming to replace 4GL codes with Java, and create a multi tier architecture at the same time. For peers who have successfully migrated from Informix database, what was your strategy (port, transform, rewrite, replace)? How did you get rid of your 4GL codes (we have 1+ million lines) Have you used any tool to transform your 4GL codes to your targeted programming language? How did you avoid completely rewriting your legacy application from scratch?