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Recursion via Subtypes
By Alec Sharp on August 25, 2010
Way back in March, I set out to write a post on “those data modeling soulmates, generalization and recursion.”…
Reactively Working in the Cloud
By Steve Hoberman on August 16, 2010
Glad to see you again for this blog posting. Two blogs ago I defined cloud computing and mentioned our…
Smile, You Are Being Videotaped!
By William McKnight on August 11, 2010
I was driving around my neighborhood yesterday and noticed these signs posted everywhere. I guess some homeowner’s associations do…
A Brief Review of the Term “Entity” - from Plato to the Semantic Web
By Malcolm Chisholm on August 9, 2010
In my previous post I looked at the way in which the term "data model" is used,…
Proactively Working in the Cloud
By Steve Hoberman on July 19, 2010
Glad to see you again for this blog posting. Remember in the last posting I defined cloud computing and…
What Do Data Modelers Like to Do?
By Tom Haughey on July 16, 2010
We all know that the process of data modeling is one of taking information requirements and organizing them into…
Is “Data Model” an Abused Term?
By Malcolm Chisholm on July 8, 2010
One of the things I learned in writing my new book Definitions in Information Management is that what…
Is Logical Data Model Signoff Logical?
By William McKnight on July 7, 2010
A few organizations have a culture that promotes physical sign off of project documents that indicate their completion. The…
Master Data Management Implementation Styles
By Tom Haughey on June 28, 2010
To this point we have defined master data, described the different types of data in an organization and discussed…
Five Ways to Go Wrong with Generalization
By Alec Sharp on June 23, 2010
Last month, after a few false starts, I managed to produce a post on generalization, a data modeling technique…
