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Data strategies - Data mastering in 2008]
Today, we are experiencing a huge battle for the ownership of your enterprise data between huge IT platforms
- Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence platforms
- Enterprise Search platforms
- Service Oriented Architecture/SOA platforms
On top of this, the "new kid on the block" arrives as the much over-hyped MDS platforms..
Definitions
Master data should not contain:
- Parent-child relationships
- Degenerate dimensional information
- Junk
- Data that is unrelated or weakly related to the business key.
- multi-part business keys that represent relationships in the business world.
Master data structures should contain:
- The business key, the whole business key and nothing but the business key.
- In addition to the business key, all descriptive data about the business key (to provide the business key current context)
- 1 to 1 relationship with a surrogate generated number to the business key.
- Load date, create date, last updated date, original record source, updated record source
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