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How should project teams use the Enterprise Data Model?
There is a team of data architects that have been working on a logical enterprise data model (EDM) for...
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The Person Identifier
A university needs a unique identifier for an individual. There is a Person Identifier assigned by the university to...
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Global Address
A global direct marketing company has hired you to be their data warehouse data modeler. You need to model...
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Role of the data architect
At the beginning of a data modeling course, I find it very useful to learn more about the participants....
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Definition Differences
Your coworker calls you in the middle of the night with a data modeling emergency. There needs to be...
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Super Star
A star schema is designed to efficiently answer metric business questions, such as those questions that return amounts, quantities,...
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A Dimensional EDM
One day a colleague asks you for feedback on an enterprise data model (EDM) she has been tasked with...
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Ontology and Taxonomy
Like many concepts in our field, Ontology and Taxonomy have more than one definition. In addition, these definitions can...
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Canonical Data Model Defined
There are a bunch of new buzz words popping up in our field. One term I hear quite a...
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Agile Enterprise Data Modeling, an oxymoron?
Ok, so you have heard of the oxymoron Jumbo Shrimp, but have you heard of Agile Enterprise Data Modeling?...