Data Data Everywhere: A Look At Data Hoarding

The September Ohio North Database Training user group meeting will be held on September 1st, 2026 at 5:00PM. This will be a HYBRID event and we will be joined in person by Peter Shore.

You're welcome to come meet in-person at our meeting location, the offices of Improving at

6000 Freedom Square Dr,
Unit 110,
Independence, OH 44131

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Agenda:

5:00 PM EST: Online and in-person meeting begins with a social hour. This is an unstructured hour where you can join us to catch up and meet other group members before the session starts. There will be food brought in for in-person attendees.

6:00 PM EST: Elections, announcements, followed by our feature presentation. See below for presentation details.

7:30 PM EST: Optionally after the main presentations, the in-person crowd may go out for snacks and drinks at a local establishment.

We hope to see you there!

Session Abstract

# Data Data Everywhere: A Look At Data Hoarding

Data has exploded over the last several years in both volume and value. The explosion in volume may mean that you, rather you on behalf of your employer, ingest, process, and store significant amounts of data. However, this process is potentially missing a piece, namely, getting rid of the data. In many cases there is a fear about doing this data clean-up, a mindset of “we might need that someday” where need means “we are afraid we missed some value in that data. This leads to data hoarding. Data hoarding brings risk. At the end of this session you will have:
A better understanding of what data hoarding is
A better understanding as to the risks of data hoarding
Ideas of ways to address data hoarding in existing data stores
Ideas of ways to prevent data hoarding in future projects

*Please note, that we will be using Microsoft Teams for the online portion of this meeting. You may want to join a few minutes early to ensure you do not have any issues. If you are attending in person, there are large TVs at the office, and you do not need to bring a laptop or use Teams.