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November 2006 - Posts

• Preparing for Data Governance

  Data governance has become a code word for preparing your databases for regulatory compliance . When you utter those two words together - data governance - what usually pops into people's heads is thoughts of Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA and government Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:54 AM by cmullins | 2 Comments Filed under: data governance, regulatory compliance

• New IBM Redbook on IMS Performance

  For those of you who are IMS users there is a new IBM redbook that tackles the issues of IMS performance monitoring and tuning. It is called, appropriately enough, IMS Performance and Tuning Guide . Like all of IBM's redbooks, it can be downloaded Read More... Posted Monday, November 20, 2006 1:48 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: IMS

• Sitting in the Rochester Airport

  Such is my life these days that I frequently find myself sitting in airports doing little more than waiting for delayed flights. Fortunately (well, as fortunate as you can be when you are stranded in Rochester, New York), the airport offers a free wirless Read More... Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:11 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: misc

• On Data Governance "Solutions"

  As a visible data management practitioner I tend to get a lot of e-mails with questions about all sorts of things. I cannot possibly answer all of the e-mail I get, but I try. If you've sent me an e-mail question and I haven't answered, I apologize, Read More... Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 11:19 AM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: data governance

• The Evolution of Database Security

  Protecting the data in our enterprise databases is extremely important. But what exactly does that mean? Oh, at one level we have the database authorization and roles built directly into the DBMS products. You know what I'm talking about: GRANT and Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:39 PM by cmullins | 3 Comments Filed under: data security