The Unfolding of the Data-Centric Paradigm – Part 1
There is a movement to upend traditional thinking about information systems by putting data and meaning at the center of…
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The Book Look: The Elephant in the Fridge
Guided Steps to Data Vault Success through Building Business-Centered Models John Giles wrote The Nimble Elephant a number of years…
Data Management 20/20: Connecting the Data
Data collection is getting more dispersed and voluminous every day. Corporate entities are constantly merging or splitting, and new lines…
Common Data Modeling Mistakes and Their Impact
Although data modeling has been around for over 30 years, it ranks among the top areas from which database application…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: A Tool for Agile Data Transformation (MDOX)
Data Transformation is usually thought of in the context of database ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading)— i.e. moving data wholesale…
Databases Do Not Build Themselves
Unfortunately, a lot of databases start as a gleam in someone’s eye. Maybe it consists of a couple of tables needed…
Improve Data Governance in Your Data Models
The practice of improving data governance in data models is inefficient and can cause a potentially dangerous situation. This practice…
The Book Look: Achieving Buzzword Compliance
Come back in time with me to 1999. What a year for both movies and data! You probably can guess…
Applying Top-down, Big-Picture Models to Data Vault Part 2
Data Vaults have enormous potential to deliver value, but to do so, we’ve got to turn the spotlight off the…
Data Governance is a Hot Topic (Data Modeling Too)
Data governance is a hot topic lately. Companies are trying to devise and implement governance programs to provide some structure…