Data Warehousing: A Short Overview
Many corporations are experiencing significant business benefits using data warehouse technology. Users report gains in market competitiveness (increased revenue) and…
System Architecture: Jargon or Strategic Weapon
A systems architecture is a tool for senior management to identify and define the companies applications portfolio.
Objects and Business Views
The requirements analysis process, as described in most methodologies’ system development life cycles, typically addresses both rows 2 (the owner’s…
The Role of NIST in SQL Standardization
20 February 1997 Friends of the Database Management Industry, The Information Technology Laboratory at the U.S. National Institute for Standards…
The Zachman Framework: An Introduction
This column is concerned with system development methodologies, and how they are related to each other. For the past twenty…
The Meta Data Interchange Specification
What follows is an overview of Version 1.0 of the MetaData Interchange Specification (MDIS) initiative taken by the MetaData Coalition.…
How to Protect the Data Warehouse Using the Repository
This article is about how the data warehouse developer's can make use of the meta data to "protect" the data…
Database Marketing: Technology-Enabled Advantages in the Nineties
The article combines historical context with a marketer’s perspective regarding concepts such as data collection and use.
Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought
AUTHOR: David C. Hay Publisher: Dorset House ISBN: 0-932633-29-3 Would you rather not reinvent the wheel? Do you have better…
The Data Warehouse Toolkit
Author: Ralph Kimball Wiley, 1996 ISBN: 0-471-15337-0 Introduction The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses is…