Getting Down to Data Basics
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 Some daring young enterprises embark on Web-enabled database implementation with nothing more than a bevy…
Data Modeling News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Modeling education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Mars Orbiter Disaster – A Failure of Data Management
Published in TDAN.com October 2002 The disastrous accident of the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter quickly became part of the lore…
Business Rules Grammar Part 2 – Thingee Business Rule Classification Scheme
Published in TDAN.com July 2002 Articles in this series – Part 1, Part 3 English grammar classifies the words and…
Business Intelligence and CRM: Staying Alive in the New Economy
Published in TDAN.com July 2002 Executive Summary With the introduction of CRM comes the need to cut costs, improve…
Data Vault Series 1 – Data Vault Overview
Published in TDAN.com July 2002 There is a new home for the Data Vault: www.datavaultalliance.com Articles from this series –…
A Universal Person and Organization Data Model
Published in TDAN.com July 2002 Author’s Note: Ideas in this article are based on the work of Martin Fowler in…
Applying Dimensional Analysis to Business Intelligence Systems
Published in TDAN.com April 2002 Most of us study bits of elementary Physics as we get through our schooling. A…
Doing .NET Right … Looking at the Critical Success Factors
Published in TDAN.com April 2002 Introduction The recent Microsoft announcement and the subsequent significant advertising program has made .NET a…
A Repository Model – Business Rules (Action Assertions)
Published in TDAN.com April 2002 Previously in this newsletter I presented ideas about what a metadata repository might actually look…
Model Driven Information Architecture
Published in TDAN.com April 2002 The Challenge of Information Integration Over the past twenty years, enterprises have created many diverse…