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Convincing project teams of the need to normalize
In our last design challenge we agreed that we should normalize regardless of database platform, and we discussed a...
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Technical questions asked during a job interview for a data-related position
I was very recently teaching a data modeling course and decided to make the normalization section a bit more...
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Taming the wild west modeler
When I tell folks about these design challenges, I sometimes receive comments like “So you get other people to...
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Medals for Model Layout
A data model is a communication tool, and therefore the arrangement of the entities and relationships can dramatically impact...
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Thinking Data
I was teaching a data modeling class a few weeks back, and we were in the middle of building...
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Data becoming Metadata
Last week at a holiday dinner, a friend of mine who is a partner at a large accounting firm...
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How long will the modeling take?
Don’t you just dread being asked the question, “How long will the modeling take?” I usually react to this...
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Data Slang
During a recent Data Modeling Master Class, a participant was describing a data integration challenge and used the terms...