Managing Data Names, Value Domains, Abbreviations and Definitions
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 The Data Naming Problem What’s in a name? Most commonly, the idea is that a…
Data Education
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…
Data Modeling, RDF, & OWL – Part Three: Converting Data Model Relationships to OWL
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 [This is the third of three articles discussing the new/old ideas of semantics and ontology…
Making the SOA Implementation Successful
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 First the organization built its systems. Then the potential of the Internet and…
Should Your CIO Care About Meta Data Management? Part One
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Over the past year I’ve read a couple of articles that described the task of…
Database Archiving for Long-Term Data Retention
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Organizations are generating and keeping a more data now than at any time in history…
Leveraging Technology to Reestablish Data Management
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 New technologies bring new opportunities, not just to developers, but also to those of us…
The Small Business Market – October 2006
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 It’s true that large and small businesses share some of the same challenges when confronting…
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,…