Business Rules – August 2009
Creating a shared business vocabulary is an important up-front cost of doing business effectively in today’s ever more knowledge-intensive world.…
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Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective – August 2009
In designing any distributed enterprise data architecture, one of the most important activities is decomposing the domain to produce logical…
Digging up Dollars: Data Mining in Practice – July 2009
Tim Graettinger begins a series that will clear up some common data mining misconceptions. This column focuses on on the…
The Database Report – July 2009
Craig Mullins reports on the DBMS marketplace from April through June of 2009.
The Data Modeling Addict – July 2009
This article is an excerpt from Data Modeling for the Business: A Handbook for Aligning the Business with IT Using…
IT and BI Career Development June 2009
Jennifer Hay provides advice for creating a resume that accurately portrays your skills, experience, interests and personality.
SELECT * FROM Celko – June 2009
Joe Celko explains the value of Google diligence.
Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – May 2009
Larry Burns describes the Data Services Stack Ð a model, or paradigm, for the interaction of applications and data, based…
Architecture Is Objective, Design Is Subjective – May 2009
This column focuses on the business information model and the minimum level of detail that needs to be considered to…
Business Rules – May 2009
What matters above all else is in capturing and expressing business rules is effective business communication. Sticking to that perspective…