The Data Modeling Addict October 2009
Steve Hoberman presents examples of ÒReduce, Reuse, RecycleÓ as it applies to natural key values
Data Columns
Digging up Dollars: Data Mining in Practice October 2009
The question of how much data you need for data mining is very complicated, but often you can use what…
The Decision Model – September 2009
The Decision Model is a new development that brings rigor and sense to the management of business decisions. It is…
SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2009
In computer science, the term "orthagonal" generally is used to refer to programming languages that permit nesting of expressions without…
IT and BI Career Development September 2009
Jennifer Hay describes the benefits of creating a visual portfolio of your abilities and accomplishments.
Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – August 2009
Larry Burns explains why it makes the most sense to do the data work in the DBMS.
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.…
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.