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I received the following question and thought I'd answer it on the blog: Question : I work in a data-modeling environment with the responsibility of logically modeling (LM) data for mainframe and server databases. LM for the OLTP systems are done Read More...
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I ran across an interesting opinion piece on the CIO Magazine web site by Juan Irizarry on the expanding role of database administration. His thesis, is as follows: The field of database administration is constantly evolving and growing. Enterprise wide Read More...
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Genre can be a tricky piece of metadata to populate accurately. All MP3 files have a metadata tag known as Genre. The genre is the type or category of music for the song in question. Is it rock or country, classical or blues? Unless you keep it very simple, Read More...
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Today I will continue my series on musical metadata by discussing the various issues involved in managing one specific piece of metadata: artist name. The artist name is the moniker of the performer of the song contained in the MP3 file. First of all, Read More...
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Be careful about automatically populating your metadata from online databases because the information is not consistent, nor is it always accurate. In the first two installments of this series 1 , 2 , we discussed how metadata can impact the usability Read More...
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This is a the second part of a multi-part series on metadata for MP3 music files such as those used in iPods and other portable music players. Part 1 can be found here . So, the music is the data... which begs the question, what is the metadata? Getting Read More...
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I wrote a series of popular blog posts about metadata and MP3 files for a previous blog (which has since been mismanaged by its owner and the content is no longer available). Since that is the case, and I recently upgraded my iPod to a 160 GB version Read More...
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The first three installments of this series on the importance of metadata covered most of the basics: defining metadata , differentiating types of metadata , and the basics of storing metadata . At this point, I'd like to discuss modeling and metadata Read More...
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Well, it is a new year, but I am going to continue my series of recent posts on metadata and its importance. In part one , I provided a high-level definition of metadata and in part two , I diuscussed the difference between technology metadata and business Read More...
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In The Importance of Metadata, Part 1 , we defined metadata at a high level and discussed how metadata is a necessity if we want to move from managing purely data to actively gaining benefit from data as information. In part 2, we will discuss the different Read More...
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In addition to managing data, corporations must to be able to manage and control the definition of the data elements used in databases. Without an understanding of the structure, limitations, definition, and description of data, it is likely that data Read More...
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