The Book Look: Quick Retrospect
Steve Hoberman has been a long-time contributor to The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), including his The Book Look column since…
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Metadata-Driven Data Warehouses are Ideal
A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data…
Data Management 20/20: The Unacceptable Cost of Bad Data – Part 1
“…quite simply, the better and more accessible the data is, the better the decisions you will make.” – “When Bad…
The Book Look: Data Storytelling for Data Management
Sometimes I like to read a book purely for pleasure, like a good Dan Brown or Stephen King novel, and…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Data ‘Mine’ing and Universal Data Semantics
There is a great deal of talk in our industry about the importance of having common, standard data semantics and…
A Beginner’s Guide to NoSQL
Whether you’re opening a website or running a business, it’s very likely that you’re going to be using some sort…
Data Management 20/20: Building a Data Modeling Center of Excellence
Data governance is considered an oversight activity for work pertaining to the creation and management of data. That is, what…
Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs – Part III
Part 3 completes this article series by discussing some important topics beyond the critical differentiators in the terminology and capabilities…
Knowledge Graphs vs. Property Graphs – Part II
Differences in Terminology and Capability Building on the terms and concepts introduced in Part I of this white paper, Part…
Data Management 20/20: Anatomy of a Business Glossary Definition
The business glossary is simple in concept, but it can be a challenge to structure, define and maintain shared business…