Neon Enterprise Software Blog

May 2007 - Posts

• What to do About Data Quality (Q&A)

  I get e-mail questions all the time about many aspects of data management and database administration. Every now and then I take a Q+A exchange and post it on my blog. Here is a question I recently received: I'm beginning a data quality management Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:20 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments

• Thinking About COBOL

  I just stumbled across an interesting article on COBOL, of all things. The article, titled COBOL: The New Latin , succinctly outlines the reasons why COBOL will not be going away any time soon. Unfortunately, businesses and universities are not acting Read More... Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:49 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments

• Participate in a Survey on Database Constraints

  Today I'd like to point my readers to an interesting survey being conducted on the usage of referential integrity and database constraints in your database implementations. The survey should take about 5 minutes or so to complete. It is being conducted Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:44 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments

• Metadata Requirements of Database Archiving

  When archiving data from a database it is imperative that metadata be captured and archived along with the actual data. Indeed, analysts at Gartner corroborate this assertion saying “Metadata must be preserved when files are requested for evidentiary Read More... Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:12 AM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: database archive