Simplicity In Design: A Metadata Imperative
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 Every year or so, I get on my soap box about the absolute horrid state…
Data Articles
Data Modeling, RDF, & OWL – Part Two: Converting Data Model Entity Classes and Attributes to OWL
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 [This is the second of what now seem to be three articles discussing the new…
The Enterprise Ontology
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 At the time of this writing almost no enterprises in North America have a formal…
Introduction To Database Refactoring
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 Material for this article was modified from Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott Ambler…
Matching Unstructured Data and Structured Data
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 For years the worlds of structured systems (transactions, data bases, Oracle, DB2, Teradata, et al)…
Self Organizing Maps (SOM’s) – Visualizing Textual Data
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 For years there has been visualization of numeric data. Business Intelligence has pie charts, colored…
Implementing Data Quality Through Metadata, Part 2
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 A special thanks to Mike Jennings for his invaluable contribution to this month’s column This…
Defining Keys
2006 Published in TDAN.com July 2006 Introduction We all know that keys are essential to relational structures. It is crucial…
Introducing Data Unification and Harmonization: Critical Success Factor For Data Warehousing
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 What is the bane of every data warehouse project? What seems to be the major…
The Flexible Enterprise: Creating a New Breed of Corporations
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 Introduction: Let us start with a very simple question – what would happen if your…