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Examples include postal codes, transaction codes, financial hierarchies, state or country codes, customer segments, and so on. According to enterprise data company TIBCO, “Where master data ...

Because of this, data and analytics (D&A ... reference data, master data and transactional data. Reference data represents business categories such as plants, currency and stores.

Transactional systems (OLTP) ran in real-time on relational databases, and analytical (OLAP) systems ran in batch mode on more exotic gear. But now, the rise of big data and NoSQL technologies is ...

Customers including Siemens AG, Mutual of Omaha, Panther, and more are using Hybrid Tables to simplify their architectures, alongside their security and governance posture “Snowflake has been at ...