Business Rules – February 2012
Ron Ross explains why he thinks the term "conceptual data model" should not be used.
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The Decision Model – December 2010
This article looks at five approaches in practice for dealing with business rules and business processes, but it begins with…
BI Career Development – December 2010
The economy has triggered changes within the industry and going backward is not an option. The future of IT is…
DAMA Corner – November 2010
This column provides you with an update on DAMA activities.
Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide August 2010
Larry Burns discusses the degree of normalization that is appropriate in a database schema and how that determination can be…
DAMA Corner August 2010
This column provides you with an update on DAMA activities.
Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective August 2010
Like all the best principles the principle of optionality is really a summation of a lot of secondary conditions and…
Data Mining in Practice July 2010
This monthÕs column covers two intertwined tools/topics: correlation and scatter plots.
SELECT * FROM Celko – June 2010
In this column, Joe Celko tells us that Intelligent Design depends on the concept of ÒIrreducible Complexity,Ó which says that…
The Decision Model June 2010
This month's column explains the role of the data professional in bringing good data practices to dynamic data.