Articles: Managing Temporal Data: a Comparison of Oracle 11g and the AVF: Part 2
December 8, 2010
[MK] Dave
by Dr. Tom Johnston, author of Managing Time in Relational Databases
| The AVF is the Asserted Versioning Framework, a software product offered by our company which manages temporal data as described in our book Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data. For further information on this product, and on the associated services which we offer, you may contact us via links on our website, AssertedVersioning.com.
Oracle 11g, and especially its Workspace Manager component, is Oracle’s current and best attempt at extending its RDBMS products to support the management of temporal data. We take our descriptions of this product from the Oracle publication Workspace Manager Developer’s Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2), document E11826-02, published October 2009. |
 ISBN: 9780123750419 View in bookstore |
| We remind our readers that a Glossary of nearly three-hundred entries is also available from our website. This Glossary explains many of the technical terms used to describe temporal data and its management, and in particular the technical vocabulary we have developed to explain the Asserted Versioning method of managing temporal data. |
Articles: Interview with Carol M. Barnum, author of “Usability Testing Essentials”
December 6, 2010 [MK] Dave
| Dave Bevans: You’ve received your PhD in English. What was your focus? What did you do afterward? How’d you come from receiving your doctorate in English to running a usability lab?
Carol Barnum: The year was 1978. I took my freshly minted Ph.D. in English (my dissertation was on the fiction of John Fowles) and I tried to find a job as a professor, but there was a recession in place (sound familiar?) and there were no academic positions for a newly-minted English professor. After a year of teaching part-time at two universities in Atlanta and searching nationally for work and doing freelance copywriting, I landed a job at Southern Polytechnic State University (called Southern Tech back then and a part of Georgia Tech). I was hired because of my business writing experience, as they were looking for someone to teach business communication, along with the usual composition and literature courses. Oh, and technical writing. Sure, I said, when they asked me if I could teach tech writing, wondering to myself whatever the heck that was. |
 ISBN: 9780123750921 View in bookstore (powered by Elsevier) |
| In my first year teaching I immersed myself in the “literature of tech writing.” I also took engineering courses in departments all over the campus so that I could at least be exposed to the language of engineers in the assignments I gave in tech writing, and I survived, and even grew to love the practical nature of practical writing. |
Articles: MK Author Ginny Redish Published in IEEE Publication
November 16, 2010 [MK] Melissa
Morgan Kaufmann author Ginny Redish, author of “Letting Go of the Words,” published an article in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Vol. 53 No. 3.
The article is titled “Technical Communication and Usability: Intertwined Strands and Mutual Influences Commentary” and the full text can be viewed here.
Articles: What is IAM?
September 15, 2010 [MK] Dave
By John Ladley, author of Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business and IMCue Solutions
| Introduction All organizations manage data and information. If you process a form, accept a purchase order, or write an e-mail, you are an information manager. If your enterprise can be harmed by you mismanaging the data you deal with, you are an information manager. This does not mean you do Enterprise Information Management (EIM). EIM is the acceptance of a formal program for doing so. EIM is also the acceptance of a formal philosophy and principle that information is an asset, and expresses the intent to make this philosophy formally accepted. This brief article will review what “information as an asset” truly means. |
Articles: Managing Temporal Data: a Comparison of Oracle 11g and the AVF- Part 1
September 13, 2010 [MK] Dave
by Dr. Tom Johnston, author of Managing Time in Relational Databases
| The AVF is the Asserted Versioning Framework, a software product offered by our company which manages temporal data as described in our book Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data (2010, Morgan-Kaufmann, ISBN 978-0-12-375041-9). For further information on this product, and on the associated services which we offer, you may contact us via links on our website, AssertedVersioning.com.
Oracle 11g, and especially its Workspace Manager component, is Oracle’s current and best attempt at extending its RDBMS products to support the management of temporal data. We take our descriptions of this product from the Oracle publication Workspace Manager Developer’s Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2), document E11826-02, published October 2009. We begin by explaining the concepts of temporal data and, in particular, bi-temporal data. The following material is adapted from the Preface and from Part 1 of our book. |
