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by Karen Lopez 1. Learn about NoSQL database technologies You aren’t going to get any warning when your company’s first NoSQL project shows up. It might be the result of a 19th-hole acquisition project (when C-level executives are wined and dined by a software vendor) or it might be part of a package solution...
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by Karen Lopez @datachick I deemed last year The Year of Data. Big Data, Data Analytics, Open Data, Data Breaches, etc. were topics of discussion everywhere, even outside the IT world. Heck, data management even made it into the US State of the Union Address. I think all this added focus on data has given us...
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By Karen Lopez @datachick Last week at Enterprise Data World, I gave a lightning talk (a strictly-enforced time-limited five minute presentation). Since I can barely manage to fit meaningful presentations in one hour given how much I talk, I decided to go for a rant. That may not come as a surprise to you....
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by Karen Lopez @datachick I posted that Tweet last week while attending the NASA 2013 Fiscal Budget Briefing at NASA Headquarters. It did well, being retweeted 200+ times and had the prospect of reaching 1.9 million people. I say prospect because not everyone who follows someone reads all their tweets. But 1.9 million isn’t such...
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by Karen Lopez Rather than write about my accomplishments over the last year, I’m going to write about all the things I should have been working on, but didn’t. I have lots of excuses: not enough hours, not enough days or too many other things to take care of. These are the types of...
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by Karen Lopez Last week I flew from Washington, DC to Toronto via Philadelphia. This was at the end of about 3 weeks of many flights, having done a DAMA speaking tour, a class and two SQLSaturdays. I’ve been known to Tweet my travel experiences along the way, but usually these are first world...
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by Karen Lopez This is the third post in a series on Normalization Myths. You’ll want to read the prior posts first. Normalization Myths that Really Make Me Crazy – Introduction to a Rant Myth 1 – Normalization: Friend, Foe, or Frenemy The Survey In my survey of Twitter users on their feelings about...
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by Karen Lopez I recently blogged the introduction to this series: Normalization Myths that Really Make Me Crazy – Introduction to a Rant. You should check that introduction out for the background on this post. It has caveats and warnings that you’ll need to keep handy while you read this series. I’m starting with...
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by Karen Lopez At Enterprise Data World I gave a Lightning Talk, Karen’s List of the Most Irritating Normalization Myths. This was a fast-paced, auto-advancing slides presentation with 10 slides covered in five minutes. I covered the types of things I’ve heard in design reviews that either didn’t make sense or repeated some urban...
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by Karen Lopez I’m often asked to help clients fill IT professional positions – Database Administrators (DBAs), Data Architects, Data Administrators, etc. Most of the time the job requirements are sufficient to help them find a good list of candidates worth interviewing. However, in these times of limited budgets, I frequently see job descriptions...
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