Joining Flat-File & RDB Data: Textual ETL (Part 2)
IntroductionThis article demonstrates the Voracity user’s ability to join values in a flat-file file to those in an RDB (Relational Database) table to provide meaningful information. Read More
Oracle TLS Support
To configure both JDBC and ODBC to support the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, there are additional configuration steps that are needed when compared to this previous article. Read More
SQL Server SSL Connection
Since SQL Server has changed the functionality and default behavior of their driver, this article will go over the basic ODBC and JDBC connections required for the IRI software backend (CoSort SortCL engine in Voracity) and job design front-end (IRI Workbench, respectively, to Microsoft SQL Server databases on-premise or in the cloud which use encrypted connections. Read More
Running IRI Software in a Browser: Chrome Remote Desktop
Abstract: This article demonstrates the use of the Chrome Remote Desktop (RDP) extension from Google to run IRI Workbench and its SortCL-powered mapping, masking, and munging jobs remotely from a browser. Read More
The IRI Platform
Over the course of this blog series, we’ve described several data management capabilities, as well as why those capabilities are important and worth caring about. We’ve covered testing, both in terms of test design automation and test data management, data governance and data masking, data migration and modernization, and data quality and improvement. Read More
IRI Test Data Generation
We started this series of articles by talking about test design automation and the need to introduce automation throughout your testing processes. In this blog, we come full circle to talk, once again, about testing. Read More
IRI Data Quality and Improvement
It always bears repeating that being able to serve up high-quality data is really important. This is partly because the consequences of poor data quality can be severe – misleading analytics, stymied processes, greater storage costs (due to duplicated data), and so on – but also because historically many organizations have not treated data quality as the priority it should be. Read More
IRI Voracity and Test Design Automation
This is the first in a series of blog posts that will highlight the various data management capabilities provided by IRI Voracity across a range of contexts and use cases. Read More
Creating Set Files in IRI Workbench
As discussed in our primer article, set files are used to furnish data for a variety of IRI Voracity-compatible applications, like CoSort, FieldShield, DarkShield, NextForm, and RowGen. Read More
All About IRI Set Files: A Primer
Introduction: In the context of IRI software, set files are text files containing realistic or replacement values for data management applications in the IRI Voracity platform ecosystem. Read More
Real-time Database Data Replication
Abstract: The previous article in this series of 4 detailed how to install, set up, and configure IRI Ripcurrent, an IRI-developed command-line Java application that utilizes the Debezium embedded engine and the streaming feature of the IRI (CoSort) SortCL program to react in real-time to database change events by replicating data to downstream target(s), optionally with transformation (e.g., Read More