Michael Bowers, author and Chief Data Architect at FairCom Corporation, initially set out to research three careers in his presentation titled Data Architect vs. Data Modeler vs. Data Engineer for the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Online 2019 Conference. The process brought him to a wealth of information he would have appreciated much earlier in his career, […]
In IT and Data, You Need to Skill Up to Keep Up
Click here to learn more about Sascha Giese. Skilling up becomes more important (and necessary) every day. Tech environments are more complex now than ever before, and they’re only going to become more complex as new technologies emerge and legacy tech remains. Tech pros know they have to develop skills both inside and outside their […]
Quest Announces New Toad for Oracle – Sensitive Data Protection Solution
A recent press release states, “Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, today announced the general availability of Toad® for Oracle – Sensitive Data Protection (SDP) Module. This new add-on module empowers Database Administrators (DBAs) to play a key role in maintaining compliance regulations across the business. With Toad for […]
Modeling Sets of Data
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Remember? People of my age were taught set algebra at high-school (in my case in the late seventies). Today it is elementary school stuff. And it is indeed a useful tool with applications in many real-life situations. Why did Set Algebra not Become More Popular? In retrospect, […]
Evolution, Not Revolution: Tips for Transitioning to a Federated Database System
Click to learn more about author Richard Mohrmann. As enterprises scale, they develop data inefficiencies. Sometimes these inefficiencies arise internally, between departments or branches, while others emerge as the parent company acquires smaller companies, each with their own databases and IT departments. In either case, communication issues ensue as siloed databases and IT redundancies begin […]
How Can the Chief Data Officer Facilitate Data Literacy and Data Democracy?
“Data Literacy: It’s all about how to get people in an organization engaged so that they can make decisions and take actions that can collectively drive better decision-making,” said Harald Smith, Director of Product Management at Syncsort. Smith is a strong proponent of Data Democracy. “Data Democratization” is the idea that digital information should be […]
Welcome to the New World of Curating Data, Not Owning it
Click to learn more about author Richard Macaskill. Faced with the new challenges of data protection – and increased levels of oversight – many of us working with SQL Server have come to the same conclusion. Quite simply, the column names and free text descriptions available to us to describe the data in our care (or […]
The Love/Hate Relationship between IT and Data Quality Tools
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. Anyone who has worked in Data Management knows the struggles that IT endures. They typically have limited resources around people and infrastructure. They have protocols and regulations that they must adhere to when handling data that is constantly changing and evolving (hello, GDPR). And the backlog […]
Are You Data Rich, but Insight Poor? Turn Enterprise Communications Data into Actionable Insights
Click to learn more about author Larry Foster. We’re in the middle of an exciting period of digital transformation. An important by-product of this transformation is the creation and collection of large amounts of digital data. Dubbed “Big Data,” it’s no surprise that this topic continues to be buzz-worthy among most disciplines across the enterprise. […]
What Do AI and Machine Learning Mean for DBAs
Click to learn more about author Patrick O’Keeffe. Over the course of the past few decades, major trends in technology have shaped and reshaped the role of the DBA in many organizations. As DBAs manage an increasing amount of data, they have also seen an uptick in their core responsibilities – now being tasked with […]