A Bifocal Strategy for Data Quality
This article details a bifocal data quality strategy (short-term and long-term) to ensure that projects achieve their business objectives.
Data Articles
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Part 9
Operational Data Stewards play an important role in the implementation of a "Non-Invasive Data Governance"ª program.
Data Lineage: The Next Generation
Bill Lewis describes the benefits of an application development environment in which all data dependencies begin and remain clearly, precisely…
The 10-Minute Data Model Review, Part 2
Data modeling is based on the precept of knowing your data and knowing how the data is interrelated with other…
Function Points
This paper presents an approach to the definition of function points within database-centric business information systems, the process of counting…
Getting Off on the Right Foot: Avoiding Common Master Data Management False Starts
Restricting master data management to a single master data type, registry style or to analytical usage will curb its usefulness…
Where is the Query in XQuery?
Michael David discusses how XQuery was designed from the ground up to process hierarchical XML data, but it is still…
The 10-Minute Data Model Review, Part 1
Data modeling is based on the precept of knowing your data and knowing how the data is interrelated with other…
Crow’s Feet Are Best
This short article examines the choices of notation styles used to draw conceptual data models and advocates use of the…
Subtyping in W3C XML Schema, Part 2
Concerned that an industry standard XML vocabulary may be too limited for your data exchange partners? No problem. By creating…