Meta Data as a Knowledge Management Enabler
Published in TDAN.com January 2001 Introduction Years ago I began using a definition for meta data that others have told…
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Data Warehouse Failures
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dis—-“ General John B. Sedgwick The general’s last…
Measuring the Quality of Models
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 INTRODUCTION Many professions have plenty of yardsticks for measuring their version of ‘quality’. Sadly, data…
A Repository Model – The Relational Design Model
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 “There was a young fellow named Corey Whose career was not showered in glory, He…
Business Rules in Data Warehousing
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 Remembering – What is Business Rule Mining Rule Mining Phases Description Archeology The aptly…
The eDBA and Data Availability
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 What is meant by the term e-business? There is a lot of marketing noise surrounding…
Denormalization and the Rules of Reconstruction
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 Introduction Software and Database engineering are complex activities that require planning and control to be…
Knowledge Management: It’s Not All About the Portal
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 Introduction Software and Database engineering are complex activities that require planning and control to be…
The Last, Best Place to Integrate the Enterprise: Why Organizations Need an Enterprise Data Warehouse
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Abstract. Today’s information-age enterprise is in a constant dialog with suppliers, customers, competitors, markets, resources,…
Managing Metadata Within and Across Warehousing Efforts
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Most large organizations today have had some experience with data warehousing implementations. Today, these typically…