The Elusive Species of the Information Age: the Data Management Professional
For most of us practicing the Data Management profession, it is frequently an enigma knowing who those in the same…
Data Features
Proactive Performance for the Data Warehouse
Diseases are named either after the doctor who discovers the disease (Alzheimer’s, Crohn’s,) or after the unfortunate patient on whom…
Quick Reasoning: Business Value of Data Stewardship
Data Stewardship focuses on “formalizing accountability for the management of data and data processes.” The “accountability for data” part of…
Eye on TDWI – San Diego – August 2006
Every summer, I look forward to the TDWI conference in San Diego. The weather is unfailingly warm and sunny. Seaforth,…
Transforming a Logical Data Model to a Physical Database Design – an Overview
Publisher’s Note: This article is being published in Association with DebTech’s Meta-Data and Data Modeling Summit in February 2006 in…
Eye on TDWI – Las Vegas – February 2006
Whoa doggie! Las Vegas has always been a big draw for TDWI, but this year the conference really hit it…
Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map
Author: David C. Hay Publisher: MIT Press, 2004 ISBN 0970601905 David Hay has produced another great book for the Data…
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…
TDWI World Conference Fall 2005 – Exhibit Hall Highlights
The conference featured 43 exhibition booths. The exhibit hall was open Tuesday (November 1) from 11:15 am to 2:15 pm…
Eye on TDWI – Orlando – November 2005
See also: TDWI Orlando Exhibit Hall Highlights Anticipation I was wondering what to expect from the weather as I was…