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For several years, I have been an advocate for the concept of positive data control or PDC. It is the idea of placing a layer ...

I had an epiphany while on the ice with my team. Our team has been together since 2018 — we’ve competed in several leagues, played in several tournaments, and even played against former Olympians and ...

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We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in some cases, to survive—they need to harness their data wealth effectively. The data warehouse, due ...

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Over the years, I have been asked several times to consolidate all the roles and responsibilities necessary to deliver a successful Data Governance program into a single article. In this article, I am ...

Peter Chen invented data modeling with his innovative way of showing data structures in terms of entities and relationships. For the first time, complex data could be modeled so it was understandable ...

Data warehouses require a sizeable commitment of organizational resources. As a result, there is considerable interest in how they are initially justified and later assessed. Data warehousing costs ...