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How to win friends and influence people through your mastery of 4/5NF
By Alec Sharp on March 18, 2011
Lately this blog has looked at why your E-R diagrams should have a sense of direction (dependency “flowing” from…
Opetarational Data, Hadoop and New Modeling
By William McKnight on March 7, 2011
The top end of data scale is growing at unprecedented rates for many companies. Google, for example, generates petabytes……
The Conceptual Data Model
By Tom Haughey on March 4, 2011
A conceptual data model is a high level or coarse data model which is preliminary in structure, possibly abstract…
Conceptual Data Models versus Business Semantics
By Malcolm Chisholm on February 28, 2011
Business semantics seems to be beginning to gain traction in the areas that are often first adopters - defense…
Augmented Reality as the Bearer of Metadata
By William McKnight on February 8, 2011
Various mediums have tried to reconcile communication and content. It would be hard to imagine doing business (or barter…
Up Front and Personal
By Tom Haughey on January 28, 2011
The term, “up front”, is bandied about a lot these days, often with ambiguous meanings. You can read statements…
Visual Normalization
By Alec Sharp on January 28, 2011
This series of posts has discussed the many advantages of drawing an Entity-Relationship Diagram so that dependency flows consistently…
The Problem of Individuation
By Malcolm Chisholm on January 22, 2011
If you deal with master data management (MDM) and data modeling for long enough you start to ask yourself…
Modeling Events and Documents
By Steve Hoberman on January 14, 2011
Welcome back. In my Data Modeling Master Class, one of the definitions I provide for an entity…
Master Data Management (MDM) Data Modeling
By William McKnight on January 4, 2011
The Build once, Use Many (BOUM) principal provides clear value for organizations. It’s one reason why we built data…
