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Normalization for Mere Mortals
By Alec Sharp on December 30, 2010
My last two posts discussed the how and why of drawing an Entity-Relationship Diagram so dependency flows from top…
How to Model XML
By Steve Hoberman on December 20, 2010
Welcome back. XML is everywhere and often our only knowledge into the structure of applications is through XML interfaces.…
Rebalancing the Data Modeling Methodology
By William McKnight on December 7, 2010
Building the data model used to be relatively easy when the models were smaller and didn’t tend to scale…
Metadata in Non-Metamodels
By Malcolm Chisholm on December 6, 2010
Today most IT professionals have a fairly clear idea of what metadata is and how it differs from regular…
Database Refactoring
By Tom Haughey on December 1, 2010
Refactoring is a technique for restructuring an existing body of code by altering its internal structure without changing its…
How does unstructured data impact us?
By Steve Hoberman on November 12, 2010
Welcome back. In my last blog posting I offered my definition for ‘unstructured data’ and in this blog posting…
Data Warehouse and Mart Consolidation to a Single Platform
By William McKnight on November 2, 2010
With all the discussion of expanding information environments, it could be easy to think that consolidation efforts are no…
Agile Development and Data Modeling
By Tom Haughey on October 26, 2010
What is Agile Development
Agile software development refers to a group of…
Top-Down How-To
By Alec Sharp on October 20, 2010
In last month’s post I suggested that if you want your data model diagram to be comprehensible to mere…
What is Unstructured Data through the Eyes of the Data Professional?
By Steve Hoberman on October 18, 2010
Recently I purchased software to help organize my collection of digital photographs. This software had some neat features including…
