Are You The Master of Your Data, Or its Slave?
Published in TDAN.com January 2006 The emerging field of “master data management” is simply how to deal with data that…
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Unwired Tap – January 2006
Published in TDAN.com January 2006 In the July 2004 column I talked about technology convergence. In that column we focused…
Security and Privacy of Data
This is an excerpt from Data Strategy by Sid Adelman, Larissa Moss and Majid Abai, published by Addison Wesley. This…
Views: The Key to Database Agility
Published in TDAN.com October 2005 I always enjoy reading Scott Ambler’s books and articles on Agile Development, and as a…
The Database Report – October 2005
Hello again, and welcome to the third quarter edition of The Database Report. It was another interesting quarter for the…
Acquiring a Metadata Repository Tool
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 For multiple reasons many IT organizations have “down-sized” over the last few years. The result…
Expensive Lessons From the Past: Profit From Them
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 1.0 Metadata Management To be successful within a Data Management environment, the enterprise must have…
The Enterprise Data Model
Introduction An Enterprise Data Model is an integrated view of the data produced and consumed across an entire organization. It…
Data and Database Management: Centralized Versus Decentralized
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 Traditionally in many organizations, the control of data resources has been centralized due to the…
Globalization is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Published in TDAN.com July 2005 Overview Recently, I had the opportunity to provide a metadata tutorial to an academic conference…