Data is Like Contaminated Water
What if the water that flowed through the pipes in your house or apartment was contaminated and you knew that if…
Data Architecture Features
Data Architecture Features
A Day in the Life
The Beatles’ famous song “A Day in the Life” begins by sharing how the singer started his day with a…
Disciplined Agile Data Management
The Disciplined Agile (DA) process decision framework provides light-weight guidance to help organizations streamline their information technology (IT) and business…
Data Architecture, Where Go’est Thou?
The other day, I ran across an article that discussed data architecture. The article had an “old” architecture and the…
SQL Drawing Blanks? It’s NULL a Surprise!
Is your SQL drawing a blank? It’s NULL a surprise! The title of this post is a play on words,…
Privacy and Internet of Things (IoT)
What is Internet of Things (IoT)? The term “Internet of Things” may be considered a misnomer. The “Internet” with a…
A Data Governance Maturity Model
In this article, Bob Seiner shares that companies in the process of planning their Data Governance evolution in a systematic…
Data Warehouse Design – Inmon versus Kimball
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in…
From the Publisher – Happy 1st Anniversary & Questionnaire
With the July 2016 issue of TDAN.com, we celebrate our first year with the new format and new relationships. More…
Implementing a Corporate Repository
Author: Adrienne Tanenbaum Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Inc. (ISBN 0-471-58537-8) This book is a great resource for any Data Administrator,…