Thoughts on the DAMA DMBoK
Many years ago, I contributed material on Database Development and Database Operations Management to the first edition of DAMA International’s…
data modeling
How Data Modeling Made Me a Better Engineer
My name is Bill Burkett, and I am a data modeler. I don’t call myself that often and sometimes have…
Crossing the Data Divide: A Case for Data Leaders Embracing Process Modeling
In the early days of enterprise data and business systems, process modeling and data modeling went hand-in-hand. It was standard…
Crossing the Data Divide: Metrics Stores Remind Me That Data Work Is Hard
If you haven’t heard about metrics stores yet, they’re “newish,” so you likely will. They are interesting to an extent,…
The Book Look: Cassandra Data Modeling and Schema Design
I love writing this column for TDAN. It lets me discuss what I learned from a newly released data management…
A Step Ahead: Categories – Boon or Bane?
Do you love or hate organizing papers and objects in your home? For those that hate it, why do you…
Who Needs A Data Model Anyway?
These days, there is much conversation about the necessity of the data model. The data model has been around for…
The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline
Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems…
Business Leaders Need to Know About Data Modeling
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that data-driven decisions have influence over all our lives over the last two years. But…
Data Modeling for Quality
In this article, I describe a method of modelling data so that it meets business requirements. Central to this method…