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Database Activity Monitoring – A Security Investment That Pays Off

Smart Data Collective

How can database activity monitoring (DAM) tools help avoid these threats? What are the ties between DAM and data loss prevention (DLP) systems? What is the role of machine learning in monitoring database activity? On the other hand, monitoring administrators’ actions is an important task as well.

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Testing and Monitoring Data Pipelines: Part One

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Suppose you’re in charge of maintaining a large set of data pipelines from cloud storage or streaming data into a data warehouse. How can you ensure that your data meets expectations after every transformation? That’s where data quality testing comes in.

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What is Data Pipeline? A Detailed Explanation

Smart Data Collective

A point of data entry in a given pipeline. Examples of an origin include storage systems like data lakes, data warehouses and data sources that include IoT devices, transaction processing applications, APIs or social media. The final point to which the data has to be eventually transferred is a destination.

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What Are OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Tools?

Smart Data Collective

The data is processed and modified after it has been extracted. Data is fed into an Analytical server (or OLAP cube), which calculates information ahead of time for later analysis. A data warehouse extracts data from a variety of sources and formats, including text files, excel sheets, multimedia files, and so on.

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The Best Data Management Tools For Small Businesses

Smart Data Collective

The extraction of raw data, transforming to a suitable format for business needs, and loading into a data warehouse. Data transformation. This process helps to transform raw data into clean data that can be analysed and aggregated. Data analytics and visualisation.

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Microsoft Fabric: Capacity Options and Cost Management, Part 1; The Basics

BI Insight

Microsoft Fabric is a SaaS platform that allows users to get, create, share, and visualise data using a wide set of tools. It provides a unified solution for all our data and analytics workloads, from data ingestion and transformation to data engineering, data science, data warehouse, real-time analytics, and data visualisation.

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How to Optimize Your Data Warehouse Strategy with Cloud Amplifier

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That’s why database administrators and data engineers keep a close eye on when and how queries are made. This careful monitoring helps avoid unnecessary costs and keeps everything running efficiently. This approach improves your visibility into expenditures, aligning spending with the areas you’re monitoring closely.