What DBAs Should Do Before Taking a Vacation
Everybody wants to take a relaxing holiday from time to time, whether you are a veteran DBA standing watch over…
Data Modeling News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Modeling education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Relationships Are Not Verbs–Part One
In conceptual (“ontological”) data modeling, relationships describe the structure of the connections between pairs of entity types. It is therefore…
Data Modeling and Database Design
Data modeling and database design is an in-demand career path, and database design is a crucial skill set that experienced…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Identifying the Right Graph Database – Pt 4
As a Data Management professional, it is important to understand the top three challenges of working with graph databases. Modeling…
Converting Customers Through cXML
Commerce extensible markup language (cXML) is a protocol that is used for the communication of documents that may come from…
The Book Look: The Rosedata Stone
I know there is a bit of a bias when I dedicate this quarterly column to my own book ……
Developing and Adopting a Common Language
Executive Summary It seems obvious enough that companies, government agencies and non-profits would benefit from a common language. Without it,…
Recognizing and Treating “Tableitis”
Tableitis (tay-bul-eye’-tus) is a widespread condition suffered by professional data modelers, commonly called “TABLE THINK.” This condition was first recognized…
DAMA International Community Corner: Update
Welcome to DAMA Corner, a source of information for data management professionals here in TDAN.com, the industry leading publication for people interested…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Big Data, More Data, BIG Issue
More, more, more! We are culturally conditioned to want more. More money, more fun, more pleasure, more accomplishment, more intelligence,…