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Re: The Data Administration Newsletter -- http://www.tdan.com/

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Happy New Year :)

Issue 15.0 of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com) is now available on-line. This issue has a dozen new articles, a new feature column title The Database Report, dozens of new conferences listed, new book reviews, many new job ads, new resources and links, and much more.

To register on-line for free newsletter updates, please visit -- http://www.tdan.com/registra.htm -- and complete the form. NO spam emails will come from registering your information on TDAN.com.

The new articles in this issue -- located at http://www.tdan.com/edatt1_article.htm -- address many topics including ...

• the importance of data names
• the importance of an enterprise architecture
• the Zachman Framework
• dealing with identity data
• building independent data marts
• meta data as a knowledge management enabler
• e-commerce data dream teams
• dimensional modeling ... and more

The new issue also includes the introduction of quarterly columns by recognized names in the data and database management industry. The first new column is titled "The Database Report" (Craig S. Mullins) and can be located at http://www.tdan.com/featurecolumns.htm. New columns will be added over the next several issues.

The articles from the last issue have been moved to the Article Archive. Several people have sent me an email in the past month suggesting that I include a web-site search function. I am glad to say that the TDAN.com web-site has finally been moved to a new platform (mid-December) that makes it easier for me to add this function. Look for the search function to be added before the next newsletter announcement. The article archive can be located at http://www.tdan.com/edatt1_archive.htm.

Check out the dozen new job ads posted in the past few weeks -- including positions for data solution architects, data warehousing group managers, data architects, knowledge management consultants, data modelers, data administrators, data resource analysts, data conversion analysts, ... Check out the new job ads at http://www.tdan.com/jobclass.htm.

Also, visit several recently posted book reviews -- including a review of Sid Adelman and Larissa Moss' book on Data Warehouse Planning, David Marco's book on Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository, Gorman & Dodge's new book on Essential Oracle 8i Data Warehousing, ... Book reviews can be found at http://www.tdan.com/bookrev.htm.

The Resources and Links section has been updated to include on-line links to recommended articles that are updated throughout each quarter. This section also includes interesting web-sites that are broken into categories including data management, database management, knowledge management, ... and more. The Resources and Links can be found at http://www.tdan.com/linksmor.htm.

Updates to the vendor list are lagging behind the rest of the issue. Special thanks to all of the vendors that have sent me updated listings about their products and services. This section will be significantly updated over the next several weeks. In the mean time, the vendor list can found at http://www.tdan.com/companies.htm.

Last but not least ... TDAN.com is a media sponsor for several conferences taking place in the first quarter of 2001. These conferences include ...

1/17-1/19 in Toronto, Canada - International Quality and Productivity Centre Canada will host Data Warehousing for Better CRM

1/23-1/24 in Atlanta, GA - International Quality and Productivity Centre US will host Business to Employee: Corporate Portals

3/4-3/8 in Anaheim, CA - Wilshire Conferences and DAMA International will host Meta-Data + Web-Based Data Management / DAMA International Symposium

3/12-3/14 in Toronto, Canada Marcus Evans will host 3rd Annual Data Warehousing, Data Mining & Db Mkt Strategies Conference

To visit learn more about these events, please visit the conference page located at http://www.tdan.com/conferences.htm or click through the conference banners on the bottom of the menu page.

For information about TDAN.com Off-Line ©, visit: http://www.tdan.com/offline.htm.

Thanks for your continued interest in The Data Administration Newsletter. The deadline to submit articles for the next issue is February 1. The next issue will be announced on April 1. Have a safe, peaceful, and happy new year.

Regards,
Bob Seiner Received on Mon Jan 08 2001 - 06:03:41 CET