A Column by Any Other Name is Not a Data Element
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Background This article describes an approach to achieve enterprise-wide data standardization through the specification, implementation,…
Data Topics
Accumulative E-Business Intelligence
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Business Intelligence, decision support, analytical capability—it’s all about attempting to predict and influence the future.…
Meta Data ROI: The Evolution of Business
Published in TDAN.com July 2001 Business Challenges It is said, “the only constant in life is change”. Never has this…
The Database Report – April 2001
Well, another quarter has gone by and many skirmishes have been fought in the database wars. As usual, Oracle is…
Practical Tips for Ensuring Data Quality in Global Data Warehouses
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 This paper focuses on a few practical tips for ensuring data quality specifically in the…
Dealing with De-Normalization of Lookup Tables
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 I am asked several times a year to create a single look-up table rather than…
Practical Data Administration
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 In the magical land of Logical Nirvana there lives Good Queen Normalization III. In this…
Business Impact of Knowledge Management
Published in TDAN.com April 2001 “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Nothing is…
Corporate Information Factory – 2nd Edition
Author: William H. Inmon, Claudia Imhoff, and Ryan Sousa Publisher: Wiley, 2001 ISBN 0471399612 If you are lost in a…
Data Quality: The Field Guide
Author: Thomas C. Redman, Ph.D. Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Inc., 2001 ISBN 1555582516 Like the weather, many people talk about data quality,…