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,…
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Benefits of Modeling Apply to NoSQL
Information drives businesses who make decisions based on data. Data is a corporate asset. Data modeling is critical to understanding…
Appreciating Metadata Through Music
Metadata is one of the more important aspects of data management, yet many data professionals do not understand or simply…
Data Architecture COMN Sense: Data Types and Roles
One of the most illuminating lessons I’ve learned about data modeling came from Len Silverston’s universal data models, where he…
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…
Framework for Managing Knowledge, Content and Documents
Considerations and Guidelines This article focuses on four of the main focal areas within the discipline of unstructured Information Management…
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 Architecture COMN Sense – Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
It was a pleasure to attend a data warehousing event in Austin, Texas in early December to take a few…
Data Architecture COMN Sense: What are Data and Information?
Occasionally I encounter discussions on various social media sites arguing passionately about the definitions of the terms “data” and “information.”…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Do Data Lakes Make My Enterprise Look Data-Centric?
Where Did “Data Lakes” Come From? Many large firms are implementing “Data Lakes.” The term, and the practice, came into…