Data Integration: Challenges & Solutions

摘要

Database was originally defined as 'a large collection of data organized for rapid search and retrieval' applied to information consistently written to a particular set of files and shepherded by a single master program, called the 'database engine'. In those good old days, your enterprise data would be found inside this file. But as businesses grew and the multiplicity of software being used mushroomed like a fractal pattern, the locations and use of your data changed rapidly as well.