The Duck-Billed Platypus, or How Strict Data Hierarchies Can Choke You
You might remember back to your early school days, when you learned about the five major divisions of the vertebrates…
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Change Data Habits Before it is Too Late
The management of data is very similar to the management of one’s health. One way they are similar became very…
SQL Drawing Blanks? It’s NULL a Surprise!
Is your SQL drawing a blank? It’s NULL a surprise! The title of this post is a play on words,…
Benefits of Modeling Apply to NoSQL
Information drives businesses who make decisions based on data. Data is a corporate asset. Data modeling is critical to understanding…
Appreciating Metadata Through Music
Metadata is one of the more important aspects of data management, yet many data professionals do not understand or simply…
Data Architecture COMN Sense: Data Types and Roles
One of the most illuminating lessons I’ve learned about data modeling came from Len Silverston’s universal data models, where he…
Privacy and Internet of Things (IoT)
What is Internet of Things (IoT)? The term “Internet of Things” may be considered a misnomer. The “Internet” with a…
Framework for Managing Knowledge, Content and Documents
Considerations and Guidelines This article focuses on four of the main focal areas within the discipline of unstructured Information Management…
A Data Governance Maturity Model
In this article, Bob Seiner shares that companies in the process of planning their Data Governance evolution in a systematic…
Data Architecture COMN Sense – Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
It was a pleasure to attend a data warehousing event in Austin, Texas in early December to take a few…