What Is an Ontology? An ontology is a model for organizing structured and unstructured information using entities, properties and the relationships...
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Business Glossary vs. Data Dictionary
The terms business glossary and data dictionary refer to two different artifacts used by data-driven companies to make more effective use of data...
Building a Business Glossary: 7 Step Guide
Building a business glossary is an important facet of modern, data-driven business. A business glossary is a bank of business terms recorded...
Optimization and Organization Are Key to A Successful Cloud Migration Project
Ultimately a data migration to the cloud is a technical exercise – we will use technical tools to move data to a cloud-based destination. That...
Threading The CPU
From a slang term for the clothes you wear, through what makes up those clothes, to how a computer process work, they are all called threads. In...
Performance Tuning vs. Query Tuning
We are going to get right to it and not bury the lead here, query tuning is not the same thing as performance tuning. Now there are certainly...
What Is Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)?
Bare metal to cloud hosted virtual machines Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is a four-letter word in every sense, well beyond simply the number of...