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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…

Whether you’re opening a website or running a business, it’s very likely that you’re going to be using some sort…

Data governance is considered an oversight activity for work pertaining to the creation and management of data. That is, what…

Part 3 completes this article series by discussing some important topics beyond the critical differentiators in the terminology and capabilities…

Differences in Terminology and Capability Building on the terms and concepts introduced in Part I of this white paper, Part…

The business glossary is simple in concept, but it can be a challenge to structure, define and maintain shared business…

We are in the era of graphs. Graphs are hot. Why? Flexibility is one strong driver: heterogeneous data, integrating new…

Everybody wants to take a relaxing holiday from time to time, whether you are a veteran DBA standing watch over…

In conceptual (“ontological”) data modeling, relationships describe the structure of the connections between pairs of entity types. It is therefore…

Data modeling and database design is an in-demand career path, and database design is a crucial skill set that experienced…