Management of Database Systems Research, a précis on Technet

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I am very pleased to announce that an article introducing my research on A Study into Best Practices and Procedures used in the Management of Database Systems entitled Management of Database Systems Research, a précis is published on the TechNet UK Blog.  http://bit.ly/1yMvzzS

There is a fun cartoon accompanying the article by an amazing illustrator, Andrew Fryer.

Thank you Charlotte Utting @TechNetUK

Database Research Publication

I have been working on my part time research, at The Open University, for my doctorate for a number of years which is a study into best practices and procedures used in the management of database systems. 
 
For the start of any research it is necessary to accurately baseline the field of study. This baseline was created through a worldwide quantitative survey to examine to what extent  best practices and procedures were utilised by the database community for the management of database systems. 453 respondents kindly contributed to the survey. Part of this research from the quantitative stage is now published in the Information Systems journal. 

An Audio Slides presentation is available introducing the paper http://www.sqltoolkit.co.uk/publications.html  

The formal reference:
Holt, V. et al., 2015. The usage of best practices and procedures in the database community. Information Systems, 49, pp.163–181. Available at: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0306437914001914
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2014.12.004

The free link is valid until February 24, 2015 http://bit.ly/1zqTjLo

More information about the research can be found at http://www.sqltoolkit.co.uk/ 

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