Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

But make no mistake: A data catalog addresses many of the underlying needs of this self-serve data platform, including the need to empower users with self-serve discovery and exploration of data products. In this blog series, we’ll offer deep definitions of data fabric and data mesh, and the motivations for each. (We

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phData

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We’ve had many customers performing migrations between these platforms, and as a result, they have a lot of Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Markup Language (DML) that needs to be translated between SQL dialects. Let’s take a look at some of the more interesting translations.

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phData

JANUARY 10, 2024

This tool provides functionality in a number of different ways based on its metadata and profiling capabilities. The data source tool can also directly generate the Data Definition Language (DDL) for these tables as well if you decide not to use dbt!

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

Prime examples of this in the data catalog include: Trust Flags — Allow the data community to endorse, warn, and deprecate data to signal whether data can or can’t be used. Data Profiling — Statistics such as min, max, mean, and null can be applied to certain columns to understand its shape.

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phData

JUNE 26, 2023

Data Source Tool Updates The data source tool has a number of use cases, as it has the ability to profile your data sources and take the resulting JSON to perform whatever action you want to take. SQL Translation Updates SQL Translation is another major component of the Toolkit CLI.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MARCH 29, 2024

GraphQL is defined by API schema written in the GraphQL schema definition language. Each schema specifies the types of data the user can query or modify, and the relationships between the types. GraphQL GraphQL is a query language and API runtime that Facebook developed internally in 2012 before it became open source in 2015.

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phData

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Data Quality Inaccurate data can have negative impacts on patient interactions or loss of productivity for the business. Sigma and Snowflake offer data profiling to identify inconsistencies, errors, and duplicates. Learn more about Sigma’s reusable data definition feature called Metrics 5.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

And types of metadata — or data about data — abound. Some high-level metadata categories in a data catalog include: Behavioral : Records who is using data, and how they are using it. Technical: Shows schema or table definitions. Business: Policies on how to handle different kinds of data appropriately.

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Alation

JULY 6, 2021

These features add context to the data for effective “hands-free” governance. New business terms are auto-added to glossaries, aligning teams on shared definitions. Automated governance tracks data lineage so users can see data’s origin and transformation. For example, how old is too old?

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