Data Architecture COMN Sense: Data Types and Roles
One of the most illuminating lessons I’ve learned about data modeling came from Len Silverston’s universal data models, where he introduced what is now …
Data Architecture COMN Sense: Big Knowledge?
We are coming to grips with big data through analytical techniques that enable us to reduce it to useful insights that can guide our future actions. …
The Business of Data: The Best of Donna
Note from the publisher: This is the final column of the latest TDAN.com series from our friend, Donna Burbank. Donna has been a consistent contributor to the …
Data Architecture COMN Sense – Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
It was a pleasure to attend a data warehousing event in Austin, Texas in early December to take a few courses and to meet with colleagues and practitioners in …
Data Architecture COMN Sense – The Missing Logical Layer in Data Management
Around 2009 someone used the term “NoSQL” to describe an emerging class of database management systems (DBMSs) that, as the name implies, did not offer the …
DAMA International Community Corner: The DAMA Evolution Continues
The team held a face to face meeting in Berlin at the beginning of October to review progress to date and plan next steps on the key projects that are driving …
Exploiting a Semantic Method
In this paper I wrote with Sylviane Cardey and Peter Greenfield we examine how a semantics based technique, MMS (Méta Modèle Sémantique) [ELA 99, ELA 00] …
Data Modeling: Understanding and Being Understood
Originally published in TDAN.com in October 2006. From time-to-time TDAN.com shares oldie but goodie articles as Features that are relevant for the times. This …
Converting an Essential Data Model to a Real Database Design, Part 2
This is the second part of a three-part article intended to clarify the translation required between the essential view and a relational database designer’s …
From the Publisher – Happy 1st Anniversary & Questionnaire
With the July 2016 issue of TDAN.com, we celebrate our first year with the new format and new relationships. More than a year ago I started working with …