Data in Motion and Data at Rest
Narrator: What is data in motion, and what is data at rest? More to the point, what’s the difference?
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Rethinking Data Warehousing and Team Collaboration
Data Warehousing means monolithic and siloed teams?
“Great things in business are never done by one person;
they’re done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs
Martyn Richard Jones, Tours, 4th October 2024
Narrator: There is a widespread belief amongst the know-it-all crowd that data warehousing and business intelligence necessarily mean monolithic and siloed teams. And that the only way of moving away from such team organisations is to kill off data warehousing. But is this really a rational, coherent, and cohesive approach, as some people say it is? Or is it destructive stupidity born out of conceit, ignorance, and arrogance?
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Understanding Exhaust Data in Data Warehousing
The data warehouse is the place to copy exhaust data to
Martyn Jones, Bilbao, 2nd October 2024
Narrator: Not all data we have is related to strictly business domains such as products, organisation structure and corporate real estate. A lot of data we collect is simply about monitoring all aspects of IT, applications, networking, security and governance. To name just a few.
Dud: What’s all this data in my exhaust? Is my data back-end going well, or do I have a mechanical data governance issue? All this OLTP exhaust data is so tedious and tiring.
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Orientation! Domain or Subject?
Domain orientation or subject orientation?
Martyn Jones, New Jersey
Narrator: Here, in this piece, we wander down Differential Avenue to look at what people consider domain and subject orientation. This story is about the good, the embarrassingly lousy hyperbole and then the ugliest provocative nonsense.
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The Data Dialogues (Nov 2024) – Talking Book
Talking Book
Martyn Richard Jones, A Coruña, Spain.
Remember 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!
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