Department of Redundancy Department
Ever wonder all the reasons that we use databases instead of file systems? While we don’t think of it too much anymore, the first reason that databases came into existence was to remove redundancies.
2024-04-12
Ever wonder all the reasons that we use databases instead of file systems? While we don’t think of it too much anymore, the first reason that databases came into existence was to remove redundancies.
2024-04-12
Learn how you can model days in a dimension that might need to be aggregated in different ways for your data warehouse operations.
2024-02-07
1,819 reads
Learn how you can handle dimensional modeling in a data warehouse when your data uses different categorization for ages.
2024-01-12
2,256 reads
Today Steve talks about data modeling and how standards can transfer knowledge between developers.
2023-11-22
355 reads
Our design and modeling is often done with some level of uncertainty. Steve has a few guidelines today.
2022-10-26
158 reads
2020-09-15
175 reads
A proper relationship between two people, places or things improves the communication between them. In every real-world based application, this logic holds and a database is no different. This article discusses the different relationship types possible between database objects. The designing of these relationships between them is called modeling, and the three types of relationships […]
2020-08-31
7,086 reads
To design, or redesign, a database of any complexity, the Entity-Relationship modelling tool becomes essential. The specialized tools that have dominated the industry for a long while are expensive and are installed on a workstation. Now that browser technology has progressed so rapidly, the online database modelling tools have become viable and are starting to attract the attention of database designers. Are they good enough to use now? Robert Sheldon finds out.
2016-03-11
4,547 reads
By Will Assaf
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