When I Learned About Entities
Everything Looked Like an Instance Looking Back The conference room had a glass wall; I guess to discourage any literal…
Data Education
Document Renaissance
We've gone from cave drawings to fax machines; from tribal legends to the global village; from parchment to PC's.
Building a Better Data Model
As Information Systems get more complicated and specialized, Data Analysts find themselves in need of a better way to express…
DBAs Don’t Need Meta Data
Database Administrators (DBAs) do not need meta data. You read that statement right. They don't need meta data.
Object Orientation & Information Engineering:
This is the first in a series of articles on the relationship between the object-oriented approach to system development and…
Data Warehousing: Enabling the Strategic Shift to a Customer-Centric Business
Organizations that have historically been driven by product and service strategies are beginning to realize that there is a better…
Meta Data Themes – Part Two
In the first part of this article (published in TDAN 5.0), I offered information about basic meta data themes that…
Proactive Performance for the Data Warehouse
Diseases are named either after the doctor who discovers the disease (Alzheimer’s, Crohn’s,) or after the unfortunate patient on whom…
Achieving Enterprise Data Quality
The role of information in creating competitive advantage for businesses and other enterprises has been well documented and is now…
Database Objects: The Foundation Stones of Enterprise Database
There are generally considered to be three classes of objects: display objects, wholly contained process objects, and business objects.