The original intention of surrogate keys across multidimensional database designs was to help optimize joins by keeping all keys, used for joining between facts and dimensions, both numeric and single ...

Surrogate means a stand-in, a substitute. Surrogate keys take the place of a natural key as the primary key within a database table. Ideally, surrogate keys stand in the shadows and are used in ...

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Researchers who discovered a massive flaw in the main databases stored in Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O), opens new tab Azure cloud platform on Saturday urged all users to change their ...

A mistake in the process used by the Signal Desktop application to encrypt locally stored messages leaves them wide open to an attacker. When Signal Desktop is installed, it will create an encrypted ...