Data Mining in Practice – October 2012
In this column, Tim Graettinger asks us if we have ever listened to or given a really poor data mining…
Data Education
Death by Spreadsheet, Part 1
George McGeachie figures that most of us are familiar with the phrase Òdeath by PowerPoint,Ó referring to those occasions when…
The Database Report October 2012
Craig S. Mullins reports on the database industry news from July through September 2012.
From Data Modeling to Ontologies: Discovering What Exists, Part 2
This is the second of a two-part article from Dave Hay exploring the semantic problems of modern complex organizations.
The Data Modeling Addict October 2012
This is the eighth in Steve Hoberman's series of articles covering the ten steps for completing the High-Level Data Model…
EA Principles – October 2012
In this third article about EA Principles, Eskil Swende describes an approach that may lead us toward a more scientific…
SELECT * FROM Celko – September 2012
Joe Celko spends a lot of my time looking at bad SQL. In this column he writes about his heuristic…
From Data Modeling to Ontologies: Discovering What Exists, Part 1
This is the first of two articles from David Hay that address the development of ontologies to address the semantic…
Employing Enterprise Metadata to Effectively Deploy Enterprise Resource Planning Packages, Part 1
This paper, the first in a series of four papers from Mike Gorman, defines the overall objective that the four…
Business Rules – September 2012
Ron Ross provides a case study that reinforces the importance of building a model that will stand the test of…