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 News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Modeling education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
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…
A Really Close Look at the “Universal Data Vault” (UDV)
This is the second of two articles from John Giles on Universal Data Vault (UDV) design. Part one of the…
The Book Look – “Steve the Publisher”
I wear several hats. One is the “Steve the Data Modeler” hat and another is the “Steve the Publisher” hat.…
The Case Against Slowly Changing Dimensions, Part Two
In Part 1, I showed that SCDs inadequately live up to their stated purpose. They are intended to provide history…
Pragmatic Data
Please welcome William Brooks and his new quarterly column to the pages of TDAN.com. This is the first in the…
Data Modeling is Data Governance
The name of this article is the name of a Real-World Data Governance webinar that I will be giving in…
The Case Against Slowly-Changing Dimensions, Part One
I believe that Ralph Kimball’s fact-dimension pattern is one of the most important and powerful data design patterns ever discovered.…
Medical Professional Liability Ratemaking: Extending the Scope of Predictive Analytics
In today’s insurance landscape, predictive modeling has become a familiar term. With insurance companies now using predictive models to improve…