To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar was sponsored by: About the Webinar Data isn’t stored in a vault where no one can touch it. Both business and technical professionals need the right access to the data, and need to work together to ensure that they all have the same […]
Slides: Building a Collaborative Data Architecture
Building a Collaborative Data Architecture from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar was sponsored by: About the Webinar Data isn’t stored in a vault where no one can touch it. Both business and technical professionals need the right access to the data, and need to work together […]
Modeling Webinar: State of the Union for Data Innovation – 2016
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Karen declared 2015 as the Year of Data. And with future outlooks, it’s still looking great for data in 2016. As we start the new year, let’s look at some of the trends and predictions coming from the data industry. We’ll include […]
Modeling Slides: State of the Union for Data Innovation – 2016
Modeling Webinar: State of the Union for Data Innovation – 2016 from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Karen declared 2015 as the Year of Data. And with future outlooks, it’s still looking great for data in 2016. As we start the new year, let’s look […]
The Knowledge Representation Corner: Graphs
Click to learn more about Adam Pease. Preface This is the first in a series of articles exploring knowledge representation in Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of a practical implementer and programmer. AI is now a collection of approaches that has seen practical commercial application in search, linguistics, reasoning and analytics in a wide variety […]
Embarcadero Announces ER/Studio 2016 with Expanded Data Modeling
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “Embarcadero Technologies (recently acquired by IDERA), a leading provider of database lifecycle management solutions, today released ER/Studio® 2016, a powerful data architecture solution that combines multi-platform data modeling, design and reporting with cross-organizational team collaboration for data architectures and enterprises of all sizes. The […]
Pros and Cons: Warehouse vs. Data Lakes
Learn more about Thomas Hazel. This column will not be the proverbial “Pros and Cons” article, weighing the good with the bad. One can find such content habitually year after year and month after month, all of which will outline the obvious advantages and disadvantage between any two things. This is particularly prevalent in the […]
Foreign Keys and the Delete Performance Issue
Eventually you’ll run into a simple delete instruction that takes minutes (I mean, years!) to get executed. It’s just a hundred-row table, and, still, it takes a lifetime to get the rows deleted. Here’s a small tip: you’re probably missing some indexes. Foreign Keys and their dirty secrets There is a very basic, yet very […]
Primary Key and Foreign Key Errors to Avoid
Few IT applications are truly grass roots. Rather most new applications are intended to replace or complement existing applications. As a result, we often find ourselves working with legacy databases. This article is based on 50 legacy databases that we’ve studied over the years. In our experience about 20% of database designs are clean and […]
When To Use the UML for Databases (And When Not To)
The UML is a popular notation for modeling software artifacts. Even though the UML was mostly developed for programming, it is also relevant for databases. This article takes a critical look at using the UML for databases. What is the UML? The UML (an acronym for Unified Modeling Language) is a general-purpose software notation. The […]