How to Build a Solid Foundation for Your Warehouse
Building a data warehouse usually involves more human and capital resources than any other information technology project an organization has…
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…
Data Administration and the Internet
We are all used to working in an environment of change, but the pace of change in the IT industry…
Grade School Lessons: Applied in Technology
Rebecca J. Duffy for The Data Administration Newsletter At some point in your grade school education you learned about various…
Denormalization Guidelines
Normalization is the process of putting one fact in one appropriate place. This optimizes updates at the expense of retrievals.…
Using a Repository to Support Y2K Compliance
There is little doubt that the millennium change will bring a software crisis. The question is whether the looming catastrophe…
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…
Achieving Harmony Between Business and Information Technology
What do the musical score for a symphony and a logical data model for a computer application system have in…
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.…