Demystifying Regulatory Guidelines
There are several regulations out there that tell you how you should be handling your data. Some organizations are held…
Data Modeling Features
Data Modeling Features
DB Pros Need to Know Cloud Migration
In 1961, Professor John McCarthy was the first to publicly suggest in a speech at the centennial celebration of the…
Big Data Hadoop vs. Traditional RDBMS
Apache Hadoop is a comprehensive ecosystem which now features many open source components that can fundamentally change an enterprise’s approach…
The Ballot Data Model – Part 2
This is the second of a two-part series (see part one) on the structure of the voting process, as carried…
The Ballot Data Model – Part 1
In Harris County, Texas (which is approximately the City of Houston), for the November 6, 2018 election, I was appointed…
Data Governance is a Hot Topic (Data Modeling Too)
Data governance is a hot topic lately. Companies are trying to devise and implement governance programs to provide some structure…
The Tao of NoSQL Data Modeling
The idea for Hackolade came from Pascal Desmaret’s personal need for a data modeling tool specifically for NoSQL databases. He searched the…
Data Modeling is (Still) Data Governance
The title of this feature should grab the attention of data modeling people as well as data governance people and,…
Death by Spreadsheet
I suppose most of us have heard the phrase “death by PowerPoint,” referring to those occasions when the burping, animated clip…
Celebrating 20 Years of TDAN.com
On June 22, 1997, The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com) went live on the internet. The publication started online at stargate.net/TDAN…