dbta

Foreign Keys to the Kingdom

In a relational database approach, regardless of whether one is considering persisted data or transitory query results, almost everything is viewed as a logical table. Associations between these ...
dbta

Don’t Overuse Generated Primary Keys in Logical Data Models

One of the principles within relational theory is that each entity’s row or tuple be uniquely identifiable. This means the defined structure includes some combination of attributes whose populated ...
ascopubs.org

Augmenting Real-World Data Through Modeling Key Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria: An Example of Patients With Non–small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated With Pembrolizumab

Data Matching to Support Analysis of Cancer Epidemiology Among Veterans Compared With Non-Veteran Populations—An Exemplar in Brain Tumors Real world data (RWD) were from the Flatiron Health advanced ...
Ars Technica

In major goof, Uber stored sensitive database key on public GitHub page

Uber is trying to force GitHub to disclose the IP address of every person that accessed a webpage connected to a database intrusion that exposed sensitive personal data for 50,000 drivers. The court ...