Business Rules – November 2008
In this month’s column, Ron recounts a real-life personal tale of woeful business rule deployment. You be the judge –…
Data Columns
The Database Report – October 2008
The third quarter of 2008 is now behind us, and it is time to investigate what happened in the database…
The Data Modeling Addict – October 2008
The eleventh of a series of articles on the Data Model Scorecard™, this article focuses on the data category.
Unwired Tap – October 2008
Twenty-five years ago seems just like yesterday at times. We’re coming up on the 25th anniversary of the “first cellular”…
SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2008
Introduction to Joe Celko's new quarterly column on TDAN.com titled 'SELECT * FROM Celko'. Joe's column will appear in September,…
SaaS and BI – September 2008
The face of BI has completely changed. Business managers today want BI to serve as a global positioning system, showing…
Unwired Tap – July 2008
Our old friend convergence, who we have written about many times in previous columns, is a consistent hue on the…
Architecture is Objective, Design is Subjective – August 2008
Producing definitions for the terms used in an IT architecture is an essential activity. This article explores why the "definition…
Business Rules: In the Know – August 2008
This article asks what good does it do to spend big bucks on improving the quality, timeliness and analysis of…
The Data Modeling Addict – July 2008
The tenth of a series of articles on the Data Model Scorecard™, this article focuses on the consistency category.