Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
Having been around the block, we data professionals have seen many cases of data which could be construed as “imaginative.” …
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Today’s Crypto-Frankenstein
Haleigh Wright is the assistant to the publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). Introduction Recently, I attended the International…
Mitigate Information Related Risks with Metadata
Metadata is a much abused term that has entered mainstream vocabulary in recent years through the revelations about mass surveillance by…
Battling Data Demons with Data Governance
Introduction The stories you hear on the news often mention how this person or that person was battling their demons.…
Bots in a Smart Data World
Tony Sarris will be Bob Seiner’s guest in the May 2016 installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series –…
What are NoSQL Databases?
What is NoSQL? I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? It is sort of right there in…
Big Data and Internet of Things – How the Future of Data Analysis is Evolving
The Internet of Things (IoT) and ‘big data’ are the most-talked-about technology topics in recent years. Big data is characterized…
Mastering Data: An Algorithm to Clean Names
It has been a great challenge in many companies to preserve name consistency with written Latin characters in countries where…
How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…
A Sample DBA Job Posting
The job of a Database Administrator, or DBA, is constantly changing and adapting to the technologies used to manage data…