NoSQL and SQL Data Modeling – Separating Type and Class
The following is an excerpt from the book NoSQL and SQL Data Modeling: Bringing Together Data, Semantics, and Software by…
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The Book Look: Data Lake Architecture
I consider Bill Inmon a seer. He predicted (and also shaped) the popularity of the data warehouse in the 1990s.…
Career Roadmapping
In following up on Dave Wells’ recent piece titled The Evolution (and Opportunity) of IT Careers, Jennifer takes a different…
The Business of Data: Focus on the Data that is Important to Your Business
A key tenet of my information management practice is that any data strategy needs to be driven by the organization’s…
What are NoSQL Databases?
What is NoSQL? I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? It is sort of right there in…
Pragmatic Data: Another Good Reason to Model Your Data
At some point in your career you have probably heard the words, “why do I need a data modeler?” Perhaps…
Big Changes in the World of Data Modeling
My work involves consulting and teaching about big data analytics, and I’m fully aware that the real value of big…
The Business of Data: Data-Driven Business Transformation
What it Means for Today’s Data Management Professional It’s an exciting time to be in data management. It is one…
Data Modeling Techniques – Efficiency of Meta-Entities in an ERD
This article considers the simplification of entity-relationship diagrams by the use of meta-entities. Indexes to measure the effectiveness of simplification…
Topology of Data Models within the Enterprise
Introduction There are four data models that form the overall data model topology within an enterprise. These are depicted in…