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Too Much Data? Then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough

Posted by timothy on from the ready-when-it-ships dept.

ChelleChelle writes "While classic systems could offer crisp answers due to the relatively small amount of data they contained, today's systems hold humongous amounts of data content — thus, the data quality and meaning is often fuzzy. In this article, Microsoft's Pat Helland examines the ways in which today's answers differ from what we used to expect, before moving on to state the criteria for a new theory and taxonomy of data."

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  1. MS was right after all by slashdotdottter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    640K is the best memory size after all, and more than that is too much...
    Really, can't slashdot select better articles? Like the declatation that SpaceX will be creating moon rocket that will land on moon in 2020.
    I visited their site today and that hit me as a surprise...