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Update 10 January 2010: Thanks to Gints Plivna for observing that we had not posted the slides to this presentation, here they are: Pretty Good Row Level Security Slides. – Bob
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Thanks to those who attended Saturday’s Microsoft Code Camp (see http://richmondcodecamp.org/). Here are materials for the presentation “Pretty Good Row Level Security” which I did with Nic Morel, my fellow CapTech Ventures Lead Consultant. Continue reading »
In a new post at Insurance Networking News Ara Trembly provides a balanced perspective on IT/business misalignment (Business/IT Misalignment: Whose Responsibility?). He describes the problem as cultural, more amenable to relational than management solutions. His conclusion sums it up: “Take a geek/suit to lunch today!”
To me (speaking as an IT professional) IT should take the initiative to solve the problem. Continue reading »
It seems I’m frequently in conversations about using null to represent a business value. To paraphrase, say there are credit and cash customers, and there’s a suggestion to set “Customer_Type” to “C” for credit and null for cash. To data and database professionals this is obviously a bad idea, but it’s not obvious from a business point of view. Continue reading »
While many organizations understand the value of managing the information resource, for many others information management remains abstract and difficult to define. In an effort to make it concrete here’s a hypothetical proposal to provide an Enterprise Information Architect for a hypothetical organization that really needs one. Continue reading »