Normalizing with Entity Relationship Diagramming
Abstract Entity relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the most widely used technique for data modeling. An ERD developed during…
Data Articles
Data Warehousing in a Healthcare Environment
Published in TDAN.com January 2007 For years organizations had unintegrated data. With unintegrated data there was a lot of pain.…
Modeling Data and Designing Databases
Published in TDAN.com January 2007 1. Objective The objective of this paper is to present an approach to the comprehensive,…
Data Management and Context Modeling
Published in TDAN.com January 2007 This article attempts to answer two questions about database design: Where do we start? How…
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 4
Published in TDAN.com January 2007 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 3
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
A Bit More On Defining Keys
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 In an article by Mr. James P. O’Brien (Maximum Business Solutions) the author outlined desirable…
The Semantic Model: A Basis For Understanding and Implementing Data Warehouse Requirements
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Overview What is a Semantic Model? The use of a semantic model as a fundamental…
Enabling a Business Intelligence Self-Service Platform Across The Enterprise
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Background Throughout the years, I have been witness to many Data Warehousing projects that started…
Managing Data Names, Value Domains, Abbreviations and Definitions
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 The Data Naming Problem What’s in a name? Most commonly, the idea is that a…