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  • Episode 5: Defining Business Terms and How DV2 Accelerated JP Morgan Chase

    Episode 5: Defining Business Terms and How DV2 Accelerated JP Morgan Chase

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    Join us for Unlocking the Vault with Dan Linstedt It’s time to step back and define KPAs and KPIs in business terms. To do that, we have to ask “why are they important?” We revisit mergers and acquisitions to illustrate their importance, addressing the challenges these business activities introduce and how Data Vault resolves them in…

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  • Episode 4:The Need for Sound Methodology

    Episode 4:The Need for Sound Methodology

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    Join Us for Unlocking the Vault with Dan Linstedt Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestiture of data.  Can the business position its analytics solution to rapidly respond to due diligence demands?  Can it deliver those analytics to the business in a governed manner?  No matter what your business is or where in the business lifecycle you are, you…

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  • Episode 3: Auditing and Scaling

    Episode 3: Auditing and Scaling

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    Join Us for Unlocking the Vault with Dan Linstedt This week, Dan dives deep into two of the most common issues taken for granted by a business: The Auditability of data and how to Scale it. To illustrate, Dan takes us through stories of his past, first with Quest missing 15 years of historical data to…

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  • Episode 2:  Defining and Solving Business Risks

    Episode 2: Defining and Solving Business Risks

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    Join Us for Unlocking the Vault with Dan Linstedt Audit compliance, global security, distributed privacy policy, and insuring raw data is available for data scientists are just a few of the business risks we face…but are all tackled with the DV2.0 methodology. In this episode, Dan outlines some of the most vexing problems encountered by business…

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  • Episode 1:  The Foundation

    Episode 1: The Foundation

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    Join Us for Unlocking the Vault with Dan Linstedt In this first episode, Dan and Cindi walk through the beginnings of Data Vault as developed inside of Lockheed Martin, touch on its applicability for not only large but also any size of business, and how it was intricately designed to bring businesses massive value by mitigating…

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  • Normalized vs Denormalized Data Models

    Normalized vs Denormalized Data Models

    Hi Everyone, Recently I heard about the CDVP2 hands-on materials, and the CDVP2 materials were not representing normalization or denormalization in the right light.  I wanted to take a minute to refresh the understanding of what these things truly are, and how they are defined to be.  We do use / apply the terms properly,…

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  • Advanced Virtual Data Vault and WWDVC 2022

    Advanced Virtual Data Vault and WWDVC 2022

    Advanced Virtual Data Vault will be introduced at WWDVC 2022 – get your seat today!

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  • Effectivity Sats and Second Level Stages

    Effectivity Sats and Second Level Stages

    This week I bring you a few definitions, and some interesting questions and answers that I’ve had over the years.  We teach these concepts in our CDVP2 class, but probably not to this level of detail. EFFECTIVITY SATELLITE Effectivity Satellite = is a Satellite structure containing “begin and end dates” or multiple instances of begin…

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  • Understanding Late Arriving Data

    Understanding Late Arriving Data

    Call it back-dated data, call it real-time feeds, call it old data arriving late, call it what you will.  The problem has persisted since day 1 of systems creating, feeding, and sharing data.  But the problem is deeper than just systems.  The problem lives on whenever business users can and must back-date data. What does…

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  • Technical Tip: Clustered Hash Keys – Don’t Do it!

    Technical Tip: Clustered Hash Keys – Don’t Do it!

    This is a short tip for everyone out there implementing Data Vaults. We’ve heard throughout the years about people trying to CLUSTER the Hash Keys in Data Vault on SQLServer and other databases that support clustering.   This is a bad idea and should be avoided at all costs. What is a Clustered Key? Generally a…

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