A data warehouse project will usually involve many pieces of software. These can be broken into two categories – architectural software and supporting tools. The architectural software will include the database, ETL tool, reporting tools, etc.…
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In my consultancy assignments, I usually work in large organisations that have outsourced IT departments and very formal processes for everything. One aspect of this is version control. In such an organisation every document contains a…
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A presentation given to the 3rd Citia BTC Conference in Kiev. This presentation looks at the problems of creating a long-term sustainable data warehousing environment in the context of the change that will affect them: Data…
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Objective Project Services is an integration of software and doman knowledge. Data Management & Warehousing has an approach to building data warehouses. This approach includes a number of templates and white papers including approaches to architecture,…
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Welcome to Project Services In the Data Management & Warehousing White Paper Data Warehouse Governance the importance of change control and issue tracking to a successful data warehousing project are highlighted. This paper also highlights the importance of…
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Installing CVS on Windows To access and work with the the CVS repositories you must install a CVS client on your Windows PC that can talk to the CVS servers. There are scores of CVS clients…
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Overview Once you have installed PuTTY but before you can connect to the CVS server, you must create your SSH authentication keys. SSH authentication keys are a more secure way of controlling access to the CVS…
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Overview PuTTY is a GUI Windows client that makes it easy to use the SSH (secure shell) protocol to connect your Windows PC to a Linux server hosting a CVS repository Installing an SSH client and…
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CVS – Getting Started Use this document to get started using CVS. It contains a very short intro to CVS and points you to the more detailed installation and configuration procedures you must follow to use…
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One commonly overlooked side of building a data warehouse is the need for configuration management and issue tracking. This article looks at a way to do this. Since this article was written we have upgraded from…
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