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Enriching metadata for accurate text-to-SQL generation for Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

These data processing and analytical services support Structured Query Language (SQL) to interact with the data. Writing SQL queries requires not just remembering the SQL syntax rules, but also knowledge of the tables metadata, which is data about table schemas, relationships among the tables, and possible column values.

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How to Implement Data Lineage Mapping Techniques

Octopai

Look for the Metadata. In order to perform accurate data lineage mapping, every process in the system that transforms or touches the data must be recorded. This metadata (read: data about your data) is key to tracking your data. Data Lineage by Tagging or Self-Contained Data Lineage.

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Modernize your ETL platform with AWS Glue Studio: A case study from BMS

AWS Big Data

In addition to using native managed AWS services that BMS didn’t need to worry about upgrading, BMS was looking to offer an ETL service to non-technical business users that could visually compose data transformation workflows and seamlessly run them on the AWS Glue Apache Spark-based serverless data integration engine.

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How to Build a Successful Metadata Management Framework

Alation

This is where metadata, or the data about data, comes into play. Having a data catalog is the cornerstone of your data governance strategy, but what supports your data catalog? Your metadata management framework provides the underlying structure that makes your data accessible and manageable.

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The Ultimate Guide to Modern Data Quality Management (DQM) For An Effective Data Quality Control Driven by The Right Metrics

datapine

This person (or group of individuals) ensures that the theory behind data quality is communicated to the development team. 2 – Data profiling. Data profiling is an essential process in the DQM lifecycle. This means there are no unintended data errors, and it corresponds to its appropriate designation (e.g.,

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Modernize a legacy real-time analytics application with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

AWS Big Data

Traditionally, such a legacy call center analytics platform would be built on a relational database that stores data from streaming sources. Data transformations through stored procedures and use of materialized views to curate datasets and generate insights is a known pattern with relational databases.

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Alation and dbt Unlock Metadata and Increase Modern Data Stack Visibility

Alation

Data analysts and engineers use dbt to transform, test, and document data in the cloud data warehouse. Yet every dbt transformation contains vital metadata that is not captured – until now. Data Transformation in the Modern Data Stack. How did the data transform exactly?