Data Masking/Protection
“Have you stopped speeding?” You could probably object to a leading question like this in court, but what happens when an important question with only a yes or no answer is solicited on a mandatory form, and the response becomes part of an actionable database record? Read More
Data Masking/Protection
This article looks at sets from an informational processing perspective; what they are; how they are constructed; and, distinct ways in which data can be drawn from sets within IRI software products using the SortCL data definition and processing program; i.e., Read More
Data Quality (DQ)
Introduction This is my third installment of blog articles about Data Quality. In the first article, I postulated that data has quality when it has an acceptable level of errors. Read More
Data Quality (DQ)
In Working towards Data Quality, we defined data quality (DQ) as a state in which data can be used for operations. What makes the quality of data high is the paucity of errors. Read More
Test Data
RowGen produces test values in target database tables, flat files, and custom reports through either random data generation (based on the defined data type) or random selection (using different random pull methods) from data in “set files.” Read More
Data Quality (DQ)
Introduction
In this article, I suggest ways to move your company’s data towards a higher state of quality. The highest quality occurs when the data meets the needs of your company. Read More
IRI Business
Master Data Management (MDM) is a discipline designed to make data more dependable, sharable and accessible. Here are some of IRI’s philosophies around MDM:
Most developers believe that data are, or should be, application-independent.
Business Intelligence (BI)
As CoSort users have known for a long time, the Sort Control Language (SortCL) program supports multi-level, conditional aggregation functions on a static or running basis. Read More
Big Data
Big Data Problem Big data volumes are growing exponentially. This phenomenon had been happening for years, but its pace began a more rapid acceleration in 2012. Read More
IRI Business
Unix first operating system was revealed by AT&T Bell Labs engineers Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, and Dennis Ritchie in September 1969 on a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer. Read More
