Grounding Your IQ Management in Sound Quality Management Systems
Larry English describes the fundamental principles of proven quality systems and provides a check list of the essential ingredients of…
Data Education
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…
Database Auditing Capabilities for Compliance and Security
Database auditing can be a crucial component of database security and compliance with government regulations.
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…
The Data Modeling Addict – July 2008
The tenth of a series of articles on the Data Model Scorecard™, this article focuses on the consistency category.
Non-Invasive Data Governance
Why should we have a data governance program? How will the business areas be involved? How much time will be…
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…