None Shall Pass! Are Your Database Standards Too Rigid?
Rigidly adhering to a standard, any standard, without being reasonable and using your ability to think through changing situations and circumstances…
Data Modeling News, Articles, & Education
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Big Data Modeling Improves Business Intelligence
Through big data modeling, data-driven organizations can better understand and manage the complexities of big data, improve business intelligence (BI),…
The Book Look: Data Model Storytelling
Larry Burns’ latest book, Data Model Storytelling, is all about maximizing the value of data modeling and keeping data models…
Common Quality Assurance (QA) Problems
According to research work done by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the US economy loses from $22.5 billion…
Improve Data Governance with These Data Modeling Tips
Data Governance describes the practices and processes organizations use to manage the access, use, quality and security of an organizations…
Stages and Types of Data Models
Three different types of data models exist, each of which plays a distinct role in data modeling. They help an…
The Book Look: Quick Retrospect
Steve Hoberman has been a long-time contributor to The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), including his The Book Look column since…
Metadata-Driven Data Warehouses are Ideal
A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data…
Data Management 20/20: The Unacceptable Cost of Bad Data – Part 1
“…quite simply, the better and more accessible the data is, the better the decisions you will make.” – “When Bad…
The Book Look: Data Storytelling for Data Management
Sometimes I like to read a book purely for pleasure, like a good Dan Brown or Stephen King novel, and…