Is Data Modeling Common?
Today Steve tasks data modeling and wonders how many people still build and maintain models.
2025-11-24
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Database modelling
Being Mindful of Design Time
Do you take the time to model and design your database? Steve thinks this is important, even while trying to make changes quicker to adapt to changing requirements.
2025-11-14
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Dimensional Modeling Case Study Part 3 - Dynamic Days Dimension
In this next installment of the date dimension series, learn how to create a table that supports different types of banding.
2025-06-13
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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
Dimensional Modeling Case Study Part 2 - Days Dimension
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
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Dimensional Modelling Case Study Part 1 - Age Group
Learn how you can handle dimensional modeling in a data warehouse when your data uses different categorization for ages.
2024-01-12
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Having Data Modeling Standards
Today Steve talks about data modeling and how standards can transfer knowledge between developers.
2023-11-22
464 reads
Cone of Uncertainty
Our design and modeling is often done with some level of uncertainty. Steve has a few guidelines today.
2022-10-26
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2020-09-15
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Database Modeling - Relationships
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
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers