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Category Archives: data
On Design, the Internet, and Taming the Hostile Database
When DBAs are involved in designing databases that need to support Internet-enabled applications it seems that common sense and data management knowledge frequently fly out the window. Why is this? In today’s post we will investigate the impact of e-business … Continue reading
Posted in data, data modeling, DBA, enterprise computing
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The Impact of M+A on Data Management
In both good economic times and bad, mergers and acquisitions are a fact of life. And as any IT manager who has worked through a merger will tell you, there are many thorny issues involving data and its management that … Continue reading
Posted in data, tools
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Privacy Policies and Data
Data privacy is a burgeoning issue that is becoming more and more of a burden on organizations as not only the amount of data under management increases, but the velocity of new data arriving increases. In this networked world, in … Continue reading
Posted in compliance, data
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Advanced Analytics
A large wireless phone service provider was concerned with the number of customers it was losing. Every customer lost costs the company $53 in monthly revenue. Although the revenue looks small on a customer by customer basis, with a large … Continue reading
Posted in analytics, business intelligence, data, information
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Using Access Auditing to Classify Database Data
According to a study conducted by the University of California at Berkeley, each year approximately 5 exabytes (1018 bytes) of new information is produced. And ninety-two percent of that information is stored on magnetic media, mostly hard disks. Indeed, businesses … Continue reading
Your Business Data is Decaying
Data quality is an ever-present enemy of business applications and database systems. Sure, the data may be accurate today, but things change. And when they do, how quickly can you adapt? How do you even find out that things have … Continue reading
Posted in data, Data Quality, information, tools
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Accuracy Versus Speed
Brevity is the enemy of accuracy. I could stop writing right there, but then that would be too brief, and I would much rather be accurate. Most of us strive to keep our days moving along. Making things faster is … Continue reading
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Managing The Information Tsunami
It is okay to say, “I don’t know.” This simple phrase seems to be the absolute last statement that computer professionals want to utter. I guess the thinking goes something like this: “If I admit I don’t know what he … Continue reading
