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Gartner Calls the “Data Lake” a Swamp!

A few days ago, an analyst at Gartner group came out with an interesting description of the “Data Lake” concept on a blog post and concluded that it was essentially a “swamp” (and other murky metaphors). So, why the hype then? The idea that you can store all your data without doing anything and retrieve […] from http://ift.tt/1qesLFJ

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Banks Getting Run Over By Compliance!

It’s monday morning as I write this and I came across a very interesting piece related to banking regulatory changes in the US. Chances are it will in some shape or form transfer over to other countries (and vice-versa). If you haven’t heard if it, it’s called the Volcker compliance after the former head of […]

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Tip for Using Hashing with Data

Whoa … there. If you missed the Q&A webinar with Dan today, you really lost an opportunity to catch the man in one of his best moods. He had slides and everything answering the questions that were mailed in. Fear ye not. If you’re a student of any of the implementation courses at LDV like […]

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What are ____ Business Rules?

Business rules are an interesting beast and a cause of a lot of confusion in the understanding of how a Data Vault tackles them. The confusion of course arises from the statement: “Push the business rules downstream of the Data Warehouse” The generic term “business rules” has been used to define both business driven business […]

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Pot Holes in Your Data Warehousing Road?

If you’ve lived in a place where it snows in the winter, you’ll get this. If not, still read it because there’s a very important point. In places with extreme climates – warm hot summers and frigid cold winters, the road infrastructure tends to take a beating because of it being subject to extreme temperatures. […]

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