Back to the Future
While I was presenting recently at a seminar called “Data, the vital organization enabler,” I hosted a session…
Service Level Requirements (SLR) as the Origin of the SLA Content
You have a customer with a signed Service Level Agreement (SLA) and a good relationship with them. This is a…
Data Governance Happenings
TDAN.com is glad to provide a report on happenings in the Data Governance Industry: Real-World Data Governance Webinar Series Data Modeling…
The Ever-Changing Role of the DBA
From time to time, TDAN.com will reach back into its archive and feature a popular article that might have been…
Data Modeling is Data Governance
The name of this article is the name of a Real-World Data Governance webinar that I will be giving in…
The Digital Transformer
Please welcome Charles Betz and his new column, The Digital Transformer, to the pages of TDAN.com. Charlie has contributed materials…
Ask the Data Governance Coach
Welcome to my new column. I am thrilled to be a regular columnist for TDAN.com. I have been an avid…
Social Media and “The Right to Be Forgotten”
Do you want all of your personal information to be available to whomever wants to search on Google, Facebook, LinkedIn…
Things I Think I Think about Data Governance
This article uses a theme that Bob Seiner borrowed from a sports writer in Pittsburgh who wrote about things he…
The Case Against Slowly-Changing Dimensions, Part One
I believe that Ralph Kimball’s fact-dimension pattern is one of the most important and powerful data design patterns ever discovered.…