Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Pointers have been in and out of data models. From the advent of the rotating disk drive in the 60s and until around 1990, pointers were all over the place (together with “hierarchies”, which were early versions of aggregates of co-located data). But relational and SQL made them […]
Implementing Bitemporal Modeling for the Best Value
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Bitemporal Modeling is an extremely useful tool for documenting historical data. It allows you to recreate databases as they existed at any point in the past and see whether the records were correct — based on what you know to be true now. This information can not only […]
Webinar: The Business Value of Data Modeling
Original Air Date: August 21,2108 To view just the slides from this presentation, click Here>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar With changes in software development methodologies, the role of the data modeler has changed significantly. In many organizations, data modelers now find themselves on the outside looking in, relegated to documentation “after […]
Slides: The Business Value of Data Modeling
Slides: The Business Value of Data Modeling from DATAVERSITY Original Air Date: August 21,2108 To view the On Demand recording from this presentation, click Here>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar With changes in software development methodologies, the role of the data modeler has changed significantly. In many organizations, data modelers now find […]
Bitemporal Data Modeling: How to Learn from History
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Have you ever called about a real estate listing only to learn that the house has been taken off the market? Or had to pick up mail that should have been routed to your new home? Sometimes our records don’t reflect reality, and bitemporality exists to keep track […]
The Emergence of ”Metadata Science”? Using Graph Technology for Data Modeling
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Building Data Models from Meta Models Recently, I worked with a government client on a Knowledge Graph kind of project. Being government, much of their data is public information. And, consequently, so are the data models. Instead of diagramming the same data all over again, I decided […]
2018 DATAVERSITY Mid-Year Top 20
It’s halfway through 2018 and time once again to post the Top 20 pieces of content published and consumed by you, the community, within the last year. What are people reading, sharing, and discussing? So, what’s happening on the list? Machine Learning continues to hover towards the top and makes a couple of appearances. No […]
Press Release: Now Accepting Speaking Proposals for the 2019 Enterprise Data World Conference
June 27, 2018 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC and DAMA International opened the Call for Presentations today for the 23rdannual Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW), which will be held March 17-22, 2019, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Mass. Proposals must be received by Aug. 17 in order to be considered. For more event details and […]
Data Modeling and NoSQL: Innovation and Flexibility
Hackolade offers an array of Data Modeling tools designed for various NoSQL databases. Their software is user-friendly, while providing powerful graphics. These features, combined with flexible HTML model documentation, provide a visual blueprint for each application. Hackolade’s output is similar to a CAD printout produced by a draftsman or architect. The blueprint promotes discussion. Pascal […]
Data Modeling is Dead…Long Live Schema Design!
Click to learn more about author Pascal Desmarets. Reality or not, the perception nowadays is that Data Modeling has become a bottleneck and doesn’t fit in an Agile Development approach. Plus, with NoSQL being “schema-less”, perception often is that there is no need for Data Modeling ahead of coding. You may pretend that it is not […]