Enterprise Architecture: What and Why?
Enterprise Architecture (EA) has recently become a "hot" topic. Articles and seminars here and elsewhere have discussed Enterprise Architecture (EA).
Data Articles
Using Check Constraints to Simulate Domains
All of the popular RDBMS products provide table check constraints: Oracle, Informix, DB2, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server. Check constraints…
When I Learned About Entities
Everything Looked Like an Instance Looking Back The conference room had a glass wall; I guess to discourage any literal…
Document Renaissance
We've gone from cave drawings to fax machines; from tribal legends to the global village; from parchment to PC's.
Building a Better Data Model
As Information Systems get more complicated and specialized, Data Analysts find themselves in need of a better way to express…
DBAs Don’t Need Meta Data
Database Administrators (DBAs) do not need meta data. You read that statement right. They don't need meta data.
Object Orientation & Information Engineering:
This is the first in a series of articles on the relationship between the object-oriented approach to system development and…
Data Warehousing: Enabling the Strategic Shift to a Customer-Centric Business
Organizations that have historically been driven by product and service strategies are beginning to realize that there is a better…
Meta Data Themes – Part Two
In the first part of this article (published in TDAN 5.0), I offered information about basic meta data themes that…
Proactive Performance for the Data Warehouse
Diseases are named either after the doctor who discovers the disease (Alzheimer’s, Crohn’s,) or after the unfortunate patient on whom…