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Print Version - Information Management: Charting the Course: Data Warehousing and National Security | Business ... (927 words) |
 | Integration of data in a national security data warehouse is achieved by means of a different kind of database design than would normally be found in a standard commercial data warehouse. |
| Data be designed to be at the lowest level of granularity at the point where flexibility is most important. |
| Data be prepared for long-term viability of the physical security of the data warehouse. |
| Commerce - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Commerce (1119 words) |
| The Egyptians, the Sumerians and later inhabitants of Mesopotamia, the Cretans, the Syrians, the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Arabs, and the Western Europeans have excelled in commerce, tapping the resources of the East, Oceania, the Americas, and Africa. |
| In N and central Europe, the earlier supremacy of the Hanseatic League, the Rhenish cities, and the cities of N France and Flanders was eclipsed by the rise of national states. |
| The theory of commerce as imposed by the national state has varied from the mercantilism mercantilism (mûr`kəntĭlĭzəm), economic system of the major trading nations during the 16th, 17th, and 18th cent., based on the premise that national wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and collecting precious metals in return. |
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