data models

The past year has been well, many words come to mind but let's go with challenging. It's also been interesting, frustrating, enlightening, exhausting, but right about now, it feels like it was a very, very good year. Those of you that have read through the previous posts will remember that, right around the time I left for the Miracle Oracle Open World conference in October of 2008, I was

I think I've mentioned this somewhere on my blog before, but last year right before I left for the Miracle Oracle Open World conference, I found myself unexpectedly responsible for a new system. Up until that point, I was working in an 'advisory' role for the project - available to answer questions, offer guidance, etc. I had no authority to direct the work, it was just assumed that the other

An article written by Bert Scalzo was published in Information Management this week. The topic is 'Is Data Modeling Still Relavant?': it's short, to the point and well worth reading.The article doesn't recommend a specific tool, it simply recommends the practice of capturing a model of the data at rest (old school approach) in addition to the newer techniques that focus on capturing the data in