Unwired Tap – July 2003
Published in TDAN.com July 2003 I’m really excited about the addition of this column to the TDAN.com website. I’m going…
Data Education
DAMA Corner – July 2003
Published in TDAN.com July 2003 DAMA International Vendor Alliance Relationships What is a Vendor and Vendor Relationship? A vendor is…
Eye on TDWI – San Francisco – May 2003
After a lazy Saturday afternoon drifting between tasting rooms in wine country, I took on The Data Warehousing Institute’s 2003…
Benchmarking SQL Application Programming Interfaces
Many applications for the enterprise, the Web and the desktop use SQL databases. The widespread adoption of SQL databases has…
A Conceptual Meta-Model for Unstructured Data
Published in TDAN.com April 2003 Introduction Meta-data is not just about structured data anymore. Five years ago I published a…
Data Modeling, Left and Right
Published in TDAN.com April 2003 Maybe I’ve been watching too many nightly editions of CrossFire on CNN, but it seems…
Web Services Evolution
Published in TDAN.com April 2003 Web Services Evolution – Phase 1: 1999-2001 In June 2001 Gartner Group documented a…
Tera-Scale Data Appliances for Business Intelligence
Published in TDAN.com April 2003 Abstract Business Intelligence (BI) is vital to the decision-making process within a company. Enterprises…
Architecture for the Ages: Optimal Data Migration / ETL Solutions
Published in TDAN.com April 2003 What makes management think that 20 years of data can be migrated in a day?…
Storing Smarter: Enterprise Active Archiving
Published in TDAN.com April 2003 Success in today’s customer-driven and highly competitive business environment depends on your company’s ability to…