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Who’s on First? How to Model Accountability |
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JohnWeathington
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
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A consistent pattern that emerges in compliance best practices, is the notion of accountability. Demonstrating accountability is a key component of building a solid compliance program. In this article, we explore the motivation, requirement, model, and architecture to make accountability a reality in your company.
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How to Survive a Death March |
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JohnWeathington
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
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A death march is a project that is doomed to fail. If you are in IT, and you are dragged onto a compliance project, chances are you will find yourself stuck here. In this article, I'll give you my tips for identifying a death march, and more importantly surviving one.
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How to Help Your Company with Financial Risk |
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JohnWeathington
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
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The new SEC standards for SOX compliance have made it clear that your company should spend more time focused on financial risk. In this article, we’ll explore what’s driving this, how you as a database professional can help out, and some design considerations for a Financial Risk Compliance Data Mart.
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Toad Executing Scripts against Multiple Databases (Part 1) |
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Bert
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:15 PM
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One of the more frequent questions people ask me is why can’t Toad run scripts or commands against multiple databases at once? Of course as usual the answer is Toad already can – so I’m going to dedicate the next couple weeks’ blogs to this topic.
This week I’ll highlight the first method of running scripts for multiple databases using the “Toad Script Manager”. It ...
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Automated Storage management |
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JimWankowski
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:30 PM
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Continuing on with my discussions on autonomic computing in DB2 is the concept of self managing space. Proper space allocations are another critical factor when it comes to optimizing the performance of your database. Inadequate space allocations can result in application ...
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