24 Tue Sep 2024
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Narrator: Data Warehousing is an excellent integrator; it is the cohesive melting pot of data and the best-known way of providing multiple valid versions of the truth depending on who is looking at the data, when they are doing so, and from what perspective.
Continue reading23 Mon Sep 2024
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Physician, heal thyself!
Narrator: Consider this. If the originators, acolytes and sycophants of data mesh hadn’t been so free and easy with how they created and perpetrated technical debt, especially data model and data quality-related technical debt, then we wouldn’t need data mesh to try and get us out of the mess these sloppy developer people put us into in the first place.
Continue reading22 Sun Sep 2024
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“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
Plato
Narrator: Let us start with a softball question. The kind that even your granny could have knocked out of the park.
How does a business describe the value it gets from accessing and analysing fresh quality data to decide what is strategically, tactically and operationally preferable for the future of the industry?
It’s not a trick question, but a tricky one that is as hard to grasp and come to terms with as a mightily greasy piglet with a very questioning tail.
What do Pete and Dud think about that? Get ready kiddies. Let’s take a peek…
Continue reading21 Sat Sep 2024
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Narrator: It doesn’t matter what you are trying to do, or even if you know what you are trying to do, but if in doubt, blame the quality of the data. There was a time when data quality was a massive impediment to business data integration.
Data quality assurance was a glint in IT’s eye. A far-away place that nobody knew how to get to.
Continue reading21 Sat Sep 2024
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Martyn Richard Jones, A Coruña, Spain.
To set the scene, get to the point, and give this thing the well-deserved impulse, impetus, and notoriety, I will begin like Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood—that is, at the beginning.
And for folk who struggle with big words? That’s the start.
So, to get things rolling modestly, I will explain where I am coming from with this demanding, triumphant and considered endeavour of mirth, myth and mysticism.
And, if that fails, we move on. Right? Right!
Continue reading21 Sat Sep 2024
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“The data warehouse is dead. Long live the data warehouse.”
Afilonius Rex
“Ignore the hyper-nonsense about the data lakehouse, the digital doghouse, the information outhouse and the big bricking-it massive. Even if some really smartish dude tells you otherwise.”
Seneca
Heads up data, information, and knowledge people. Listen to me! If you are so of a mind.
Continue reading21 Sat Sep 2024
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Informal Introduction
To paraphrase Manuel Azaña, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, “If the data punters, grifters and chancers were only allowed to talk about what they really knew about, there would be a great silence. Which would allow us data professionals to actually think about data.”
Continue reading22 Wed Mar 2023
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Narrator: Here comes another one. You don’t need a data warehouse to do data warehousing.
Continue reading21 Tue Mar 2023
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Narrator: Another absurdly tetric myth being pushed by a cross-section of the expansive, permissive and obtuse talking-head data-mesh massive is that data warehousing necessarily means that enterprises have to have thousands of complex, expensive and unmanageable ETL jobs in order to build, maintain and expand their data warehousing reach.
Continue reading20 Mon Mar 2023
Martyn Richard Jones
Saintes, 20th March 2023
Narrator: As much as I love the work of some celebrated buffoons, fools and jesters with imagination, there are some areas that they should not be allowed to invade without adequate supervision being in place.
Dud: Pete,why do people talk such complete and utter unsubstantiated poll tax?
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