Data Modeling: Understanding and Being Understood
Originally published in TDAN.com in October 2006. From time-to-time TDAN.com shares oldie but goodie articles as Features that are relevant…
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Converting an Essential Data Model to a Real Database Design, Part One
This is the first part of a three-part series, describing the process of converting a relatively abstract Essential Data Model…
Just Enough, Just In Time Semantics
Organizations have been struggling with integrating data across their departments and with business partners. Differences in syntax can often be…
Managing Enterprise Data Assets to Enable Data Governance
Every enterprise recognizes data governance is an important practice to follow as it unlocks the business value of data and…
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…
Mastering Data: An Algorithm to Clean Names
It has been a great challenge in many companies to preserve name consistency with written Latin characters in countries where…
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…
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…