DAMA Corner – July 2006
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 How Do We View Ourselves? This question arises frequently at DAMA Chapter meetings and it…
A New Way of Thinking – July 2006
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 My interest in the area of Master Data Management (MDM) is largely driven by my…
Introduction To Database Refactoring
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 Material for this article was modified from Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott Ambler…
Matching Unstructured Data and Structured Data
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 For years the worlds of structured systems (transactions, data bases, Oracle, DB2, Teradata, et al)…
Self Organizing Maps (SOM’s) – Visualizing Textual Data
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 For years there has been visualization of numeric data. Business Intelligence has pie charts, colored…
Implementing Data Quality Through Metadata, Part 2
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 A special thanks to Mike Jennings for his invaluable contribution to this month’s column This…
Defining Keys
2006 Published in TDAN.com July 2006 Introduction We all know that keys are essential to relational structures. It is crucial…
Introducing Data Unification and Harmonization: Critical Success Factor For Data Warehousing
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 What is the bane of every data warehouse project? What seems to be the major…
The Flexible Enterprise: Creating a New Breed of Corporations
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 Introduction: Let us start with a very simple question – what would happen if your…
The Small Business Market – July 2006
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 After 16 years in the data quality software business, having worked with countless Fortune 500…