Which Should Come First – the Chicken or the Egg?
Published in TDAN.com January 2002 Introduction Which application did most companies build first, the data warehouse/data marts or the meta…
Data Education
Business Rules Applied
Author: Barbara von Halle Publisher: Wiley and Sons, 2002 ISBN 0471412937 When I received a copy of Business Rules Applied,…
Database Administration – The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures
Author: Craig S. Mullins Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002 ISBN: 0201741296 The problem with the relational world, particularly that in the…
What is a Business Rules Approach?
Published in TDAN.com January 2002 [The following is an excerpt from chapter one from the book titled Business Rules Applied…
Event Progress Diagrams
Introduction Visualization helps in understanding a software system. The dynamic views have been extensively used to understand behavior of system…
A New Direction for Data Resource Management
What is the future for data resource management? Considering the past practices and the current data resource situation in most…
The Database Report – October 2001
As I write this edition of The Database Report it is just one week after the terrorist attacks on the…
What is VLDB? Very Large Databases
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Articles in this series – Part 2, Part 3 This is the first part of…
Meta Data Architecture Fundamentals
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Over the next few years many companies will have the unenviable task of completely rebuilding…
The Importance of the Data & Knowledge Management Specialist
Published in TDAN.com October 2001 Author’s note … It is now a couple of weeks after the day that changed…