Data Protection vs. Data Loss Prevention in Google Workspace: Understanding the Difference
Data is your organization’s most valuable asset.
The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Data Loss Prevention in Google Workspace
If your organization is using Google Workspace, then your organization is storing data in the cloud, and most likely, ...
How to Detect and Prevent Unauthorized Access in Google Workspace
Hackers have a new tool at their disposal: generative AI.
The Role of Google Workspace Admins in Strengthening Security: A Checklist for 2025
More than four in five security decision-makers acknowledge the need to improve security measures, according to a ...
Common Google Workspace Security Misconfigurations That Leave Your Data at Risk
Google Workspace is built with security at its core, but that doesn’t mean it’s secure by default.
Unfolding Excellence: Best Practices for Migrating Your On-Premises Data Warehouse to Google Cloud’s BigQuery
If you have big data, then you need big storage. And if you want to leverage that big data, then you’ll need to migrate ...
Revolutionizing Retail: Empowering Frontline Workers with Google Workspace
Frontline retail workers play a critical role in driving sales—and brand loyalty—by delivering exceptional customer ...
Where in a Modern Data Platform Should You Process Your Data?
Data warehouse or data lake? We break down the pros and cons of each In the book Designing Cloud Data Platforms, ...
How to troubleshoot a failure to mount DBFS
When attempting to shut down Oracle Clusterware, you might encounter the frustrating CRS-2675: Stop of 'ora.crsd' on ...
Data modeling for cloud DW
Intro In this blog post, I would like to share some options that you can consider to model your cloud DW for better ...
Analyzing BigQuery via Excel and Google Sheets
Both MS Excel and Google Sheets offer ways to connect directly to BQ data, to run queries, to pull data back to ...
Azure Data Lake basics for the SQL Server DBA / developer and... for everyone!
The basics If you're a Microsoft SQL Server DBA or developer and have not been introduced to the Microsoft Azure Data ...
News and upates from Microsoft Azure, pt II
I recently joined Chris Presley for his podcast, Cloudscape , to talk about what’s happening in the world of ...
Calculating business days in HiveQL
Background One of the common tasks in data processing is to calculate the number of days between two given dates. You ...
Implementing Many-to-many Relationships in Data Warehousing
Context This article will discuss how to make many-to-many relationships in data warehousing easily queried by novice ...
The five key Requirements for a successful SAP data management strategy
Introduction In our last blog article on data management and the DART methodology, we discussed the importance of ...
Data preparation with dbt and BigQuery
Raw incoming data needs to go through a series of data preparation steps before it can be used for analysis. These ...
Snowflake System Function Error: Argument 0 to Function SYSTEM$PIPE_STATUS Needs to Be Constant
I recently encountered the above issue which prompted me to write this blog post so I can easily reference the solution ...
Column Level Security BigQuery(GCP)
BigQuery provides fine-grained access to sensitive columns using policy tags, or type-based classification, of data. ...
Near Real-Time Data Processing for BigQuery: Part Two
This post is part two of describing (near) real-time data processing for BigQuery. In this post, I will use Dataform to ...
Making the case: Is Google Workspace Enterprise right for my organization?
If your organization is already using the Business edition of Google Workspace and it’s working just fine, why would ...
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