Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective May 2010
In designing any distributed enterprise data architecture, one of the most important activities is decomposing the domain to produce logical…
Data Columns
The Database Report – April 2010
Craig Mullins provides his insightful look at the happenings in the DBMS market.
The Data Modeling Addict – April 2010
Steve Hoberman describes three situations that can degrade the precision of a data model.
The Data Maze April 2010
Dan Sutherland explains why having and implementing good data models is vital to the analytic food chain.
Data Mining in Practice April 2010
This month's column begins a new series on the nuts and bolts of data mining. Through this series, you will…
SELECT * FROM Celko – March 2010
Joe Celko emphasizes that the bottom line is that there is no voting system that satisfies simple criteria for fairness.…
IT and BI Career Development – March 2010
Jennifer Hay reminds us that keeping active during your job search is more complex and challenging, but infinitely more important…
The Decision Model March 2010
The true value of a Decision Model is not how elegant it looks or how fast we create it, but…
Business Rules February 2010
In this interview, Ron Ross emphasizes the importance of understanding the value of data quality in the context of being…
Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide Feb 2010
Larry Burns relates the benefits of approaching data modeling in an Agile fashion.