Often data is categorized into very high-level groupings of structured or unstructured. Generally, structured data is considered data that conforms to an easily identifiable pattern and as part of ...

In writing a definition for an entity, an attribute, or any other element within a database design, the desired end is a descriptive text that is clear, factual and concise. Semantics are an ambiguous ...

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

The analysis, classification and maintenance of an organization's data and data relationships. Data administration includes the development of data models and data dictionaries, which, combined with ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. The emergence of business intelligence and data warehousing initiatives has placed ...

Database programs let users create and edit single files interactively at the keyboard. However, as soon as they want data in one file to automatically update another, programming has to be done. That ...

Socrates is noted as saying, “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” This premise should dominate how mission-oriented organizations communicate with the rest of the world, but it’s ...