What DBAs Should Do Before Taking a Vacation
Everybody wants to take a relaxing holiday from time to time, whether you are a veteran DBA standing watch over…
Data Education
The Mainframe is a Modern Platform
Mainframes continue to excel at traditional tasks such as high-speed transaction processing and running large batch workloads. Mainframes also can…
Relationships Are Not Verbs–Part One
In conceptual (“ontological”) data modeling, relationships describe the structure of the connections between pairs of entity types. It is therefore…
Data Professional Introspective: EDM Education – Part 1 Why, What & Who
In my previous TDAN.com column, “Piloting the Plane – EDM Program and Project Management,” I explored perspectives, structures, cultures, approaches…
Using IoT for Machine Monitoring
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast subject that implements its unique solutions for convenient operability in many industries…
How to Convince Stakeholders That Data Governance is Necessary
You may already have a formal Data Governance program in place. Then again, perhaps you don’t. Or … you are…
The New Reality – Data or Bust
Tobi Lutke, CEO of Shopify, announced, “We will keep our offices closed until 2021 so that we can rework them…
Using Data Privacy to Scale Up Your Governance Strategy
It’s a data-driven and digital world out there! Information is one of the most important strategic assets of an organization.…
The Book Look: New Book on the Data Catalog
About a week ago, I was teaching a data modeling class, and an attendee asked me to explain the concept…
Data Democratization Through Self-Service BI
Organizations in all industries increasingly recognize the value of a data-driven culture, a current hot trend in business intelligence. Data-driven…