Data Management 20/20: Build a Managed Data Design Program
Join me in welcoming Robert Lutton, Sandhill Consultants and their new column ‘Data Management 20/20’ to the pages of TDAN.com.…
Data Modeling News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Modeling education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
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 Professional Introspective: How to Tackle a Data Quality Strategy
Everyone talks about the importance of data quality, but no one does anything about it. Not anything much, that is. …
Is GDPR a Grinch?
Most people know that GDPR went into effect in May 2018. For those of you who don’t know, GDPR was…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: A Tool for Agile Data Transformation (MDOX)
Data Transformation is usually thought of in the context of database ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading)— i.e. moving data wholesale…
Databases Do Not Build Themselves
Unfortunately, a lot of databases start as a gleam in someone’s eye. Maybe it consists of a couple of tables needed…
Improve Data Governance in Your Data Models
The practice of improving data governance in data models is inefficient and can cause a potentially dangerous situation. This practice…
The Book Look: Achieving Buzzword Compliance
Come back in time with me to 1999. What a year for both movies and data! You probably can guess…
Applying Top-down, Big-Picture Models to Data Vault Part 2
Data Vaults have enormous potential to deliver value, but to do so, we’ve got to turn the spotlight off the…