At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

As more organizations embrace big data and analytics to gain insight from extremely large datasets, the tools and systems used to manage data have grown, changed, and mul­tiplied. Instead of just ...

All too often I see organizations forcing the DBA group to take on the job of data modeling. Oh, perhaps it is not a formal requirement, but it happens nonetheless because there is no staff focused on ...