Many years ago, I contributed material on Database Development and Database Operations Management to the first edition of ...

After reading a piece a while back on why people “don’t trust data, they only trust other people,” I found myself agreeing — ...

This column addresses the role of data in the field of healthcare known as “preventive healthcare.” Preventive healthcare is ...

Other Attributes. There are other party attributes of interest. Either a Person or an Organization may have a birth – the date the party came into existence – as well as a death date. Persons may have ...

Robert (Bob) S. Seiner is the President and Principal of KIK Consulting & Educational Services and the Publisher Emeritus of The Data Administration Newsletter.Seiner is a thought-leader in the fields ...

Abstract Entity relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the most widely used technique for data modeling. An ERD developed during the conceptual data modeling phase of the database development process is ...

This quarter’s column is co-authored with Anthony Mazzarella, a fellow practitioner-academic doing research into what makes data governance “tick.” There has been a lot of commentary on social media ...

Data is the supply chain for AI. For generative AI, even in fine-tuned, company-specific large language models, the data that is input into training data comes from a host of different sources. If the ...

Executive Summary The quality of data used in business is more important now than ever before. Accordingly, in order for organizations to deliver good business results, their data must be accurate, ...

Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Overview What is a Semantic Model? The use of a semantic model as a fundamental step in the data warehouse development process can serve as a keystone for ...

Introduction 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 ...

But data and information are very special types of circulating assets, with some very special properties that we need to take note of: [i] Data is immutable – It is not consumed as it is used and is ...