The Foundation of Excellent Performance
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 Introduction Fast databases are no longer a nice-to-have – they are a necessity. E-commerce databases…
Data Education
Practical Tips for Ensuring Data Quality in Global Data Warehouses
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 This paper focuses on a few practical tips for ensuring data quality specifically in the…
Business Impact of Knowledge Management
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Nothing is…
Geospatial Data Mining for Market Intelligence
Overview Today, there is a huge amount of information readily available describing both consumer & business demographics related to practically…
Is SQL a Real Standard Anymore?
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 Just what is a standard? It is something you can count on: for what it…
Using Knowledge Management Tools to Reduce Risk in Professional Service Engagements
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 Knowledge Management tools — especially those that exist as part of the five Knowledge Management…
Defining the Requirements for a Business Rule Repository
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 The information systems that we are specifying and building today are much more complex in…
Dealing with De-Normalization of Lookup Tables
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 I am asked several times a year to create a single look-up table rather than…
The Database Report – January 2001
Welcome to the first edition of a regular quarterly column I will be writing for TDAN.com called The Database Report.…
Perspective and Abstraction
Published in TDAN.com January 2001 Introduction In technical literature and in the as various discussion groups, there seems to be…