Occasionally one may hear that a data model is “over-normalized,” but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to ...

In this special guest feature, Mark Madsen, President of Third Nature Inc. discusses the rise of the data vault as a database modeling method that provides long-term historical storage of data from ...

Organizations often force the DBA to take on the job of data modeling. That does not mean that DBAs are well-trained in data modeling, nor does it mean that DBAs are best suited to take on this task.

If your AI treats these identifiers as isolated columns in a table, the machine is essentially just memorizing a list. This ...

Data is the #1 Driver of Transformative Value in the Enterprise today. Building data-driven businesses is clearly the topic of most board agendas this year. Increasing technology maturity coupled with ...