Validation, Verification, and Modification
Over the years, I’ve stressed that a schema should support validation and verification of its data, but I’ve never really given a good discussion of what those terms mean. I’d like to add another...
View ArticleQuestions about Data Governance that You Were Too Shy to Ask
Why does an organization need to have Data Governance? Does Data Governance restrict Agile Application Development? If my organization hasn’t got any data governance, where does it start? What is...
View ArticleDegree of Duplication
The relational model was strongly based on sets. It wasn’t enough that a table had to have a key (originally a primary key, but later we realized all keys were keys). As Jim Gray put it in the early...
View ArticleQuestions About Data Breaches that You Were Too Shy to Ask
It is obvious when your credit card details are offered for sale on the dark web, but what else constitutes a Data Breach? How serious are insider threats? I’m trading only in America. Am I required...
View ArticleData Retention: An Inexact Art
There are several reasons for understanding and categorizing your organizations data. While security and privacy are important, so is data retention, once known as document retention. Data retention...
View ArticleCyber Insecurity in Pakistan
On 26th October, almost all Pakistani television channels (followed by print and web media) were flooded with the breaking news saying that Pakistan is encountering a new layer of cybercrime scam...
View ArticleYes and No Questions Are Not So Simple
Yes! We Have No Bananas Song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn There’s a fruit store on our street It’s run by a Greek. And he keeps good things to eat But you should hear him speak! When you ask him...
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The Two Ways Containers Will Revolutionize Database DevOps
Table of Contents Revolution 1 – Database Provisioning as a Service Why didn’t this happen earlier with SAN automation and virtualization? Why do containers change this? They aren’t inherently stateful...
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The Fashionable Truth About AI
Over the past year, the topic of AI has really blown up in the general public. However, AI was already something very important to most corporations, but the Large Language Models (LLM) made it...
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Writing your 2024 PASS Data Community Summit Submission
It is time again for the PASS Data Community Summit Call For Speakers. Some of you are very ready. You have a presentation idea that has percolated since at least last October. You have asked friends...
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