Data Architecture COMN Sense: What are Data and Information?
Occasionally I encounter discussions on various social media sites arguing passionately about the definitions of the terms “data” and “information.”…
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The Data-Centric Revolution: Do Data Lakes Make My Enterprise Look Data-Centric?
Where Did “Data Lakes” Come From? Many large firms are implementing “Data Lakes.” The term, and the practice, came into…
Data Architecture COMN Sense – The Missing Logical Layer in Data Management
Around 2009 someone used the term “NoSQL” to describe an emerging class of database management systems (DBMSs) that, as the…
Data Architecture COMN Sense: Relationships in Structured Data
In my blog last month, we looked at five aspects of relationship types, relationships in graphs, and how relationships are…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Data-Driven
In this column, I am making the case for Data Centric architectures for enterprises. There is a huge economic advantage…
Converting an Essential Model to a Real Database Design, Part 3
Introduction This is the third part of a three-part article intended to clarify the translation required between the essential view…
Data Warehouse Design – Inmon versus Kimball
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in…
Data Architecture COMN Sense: Relationships and Semantics
Introduction Relationships are fundamental to contextual modeling, data modeling, and semantics. It’s important to understand them deeply. This blog will…
From the Publisher – Happy 1st Anniversary & Questionnaire
With the July 2016 issue of TDAN.com, we celebrate our first year with the new format and new relationships. More…
Metadata is Not a Technical Term Anymore
Abstract In the pursuit of guiding practitioners in solving problems like: How do I understand better my information? The outlined…