PART 1PRELIMINARIES
This part of the book describes the importance of data to the enterprise, introduces the concept of database design, and considers the roles and responsibilities of data management within an enterprise. This part has three chapters.
Chapter 1 – Data and the Enterprise – introduces the idea that information is a key business resource. It starts by exploring the relationship between information and data, and introduces the different types of data. It then moves on to a discussion of the importance of the quality of the data that underlies the information. If the quality of data is important, what are the common problems with data? Why must we take an enterprise-wide view of data? The chapter concludes by highlighting that ...
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