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…
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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…
Agile Data Design – August 2014
What a successful BI project teaches us, ultimately, is humility. Larry Burns tells us that we did not know what…
The Database Report – April 2014
In this column, Craig Mullins shares with us all the news that is fit to print in the database industry…
The Decision Model – March 2014
In this column Ken and Steven tell us that the benefit of having decision models is that, by the time…
Best of 2013 – The Evolving Data Modeler Skillset
Steve Hoberman shares his views on the evolving data modeler skillset and the DMZ events.
The Decision Model – December 2013
The goal of the DMN is to provide a notation for decisions understandable to all audiences, including business and technical…