NoSQL and Multi-Model Database Use Cases
NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type…
Data Modeling News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Modeling education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Data Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 3
In Part 1, we discussed the front end of the lifecycle – developing requirements for, and selecting data sources. In…
Why You Should Care About Data Modeling
Many software developers distrust data architecture practices such as data modeling. They associate these practices with rigid and bureaucratic processes…
Should We Consider Banishing CIOs?
“First thing we do, let’s banish all of the CIOs.” Too harsh? Shakespeare was much harder on lawyers. But the…
Domain-Driven Development: Part 4
Data Mesh and Data as a Product In the first article, I introduced and explained the approach to application development…
The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline
Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems…
Domain-Driven Development: Part 2
Canonical Data Models and Overlapping Connections In the previous article, I introduced and explained the approach to application development called…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: All Data is Suffering (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I shared how our reactions to data can cause a great deal of suffering…
Celebrating 25 Years of TDAN.com!
Twenty-five years ago on June 22, 1997, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. Websites were new…
Domain-Driven Development: Part 1
Bounded Contexts / Ubiquitous Language My new book, Data Model Storytelling,[i] contains a section describing some of the most significant…