More About Data Quality and Software Quality
I mentioned a fact that some IT professionals find shocking: Poor data quality is an emergent property of excellent, even defect-free software. If folks are going to insist on being shocked, I’ll...
View ArticleDon’t Be A Victim Of Your Own History
The history of data modeling is inextricably linked with the history of software technology. Not surprisingly, many putative “best practices” for data modeling are nothing more than distorted versions...
View ArticleSquare Pegs and Elliptical Holes: Imposing False Rules on Modeling Language
My last post (Mistakes of History) discussed some sub-optimal practices of data modeling caused by our historical focus on building software systems. This post is similar; it focuses on suboptimal...
View ArticleRespecting Boundaries
By an accident of birth I know a lot of novelists, poets, screenwriters, and playwrights. I repeatedly hear them discuss what they willfully exclude. They know more about their plots and their...
View ArticleWho’s On First?
What is your modeling process? Do you investigate entities first, then relationships, then attributes, and finally identifiers? Or perhaps you do entities,, then attributes, then identifiers, then...
View ArticleBreaking Rules
A recurring theme here has been the mismatch between human behavior and our best practices as modelers: Modeling best practice encourages us to present models to users starting with the general, highly...
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Reverse Engineer a Database with Embarcadero ER/Studio Data Architect
In this first of the series articles on Reverse Engineering and Data Modeling, we will be going through a simple example on how easy it is, for us to reverse engineer an existing SQL Server Database...
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Building Your Very First Data Model From Scratch Using Embarcadero’s...
Section 1: Creating a Data Model In this section, we will be learning how to create a data model from scratch using ER/Studio Data Architect. Launch ER/Studio Data Architect Click on the New Data...
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Logical to Physical Data Modeling Using Embarcadero’s ER/Studio Data Architect
Section 1: Generating a Physical Data Model In the last article we learned how to create a data model from scratch using ER/Studio Data Architect. In part II we will explore about how to convert a...
View ArticleEnterprise Data Strategy: What It Means To You
The phrase “Enterprise Data Strategy” has earned many consultants a substantial amount in fees from those organizations that knew they needed one, but were unclear what it really meant to them....
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Generating Reports for Your Data Model
Generating a Report In the last article we learned how to convert a physical data model from a logical data model using ER/Studio Data Architect. In this article, we will explore on how to generate a...
View ArticleEnterprise Data – Risk and Reward
Access to large volumes of data should be a good thing, right? Right? I am old enough to remember being excited by the delivery of 200 pages of green bar reports, a week after my request was submitted...
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Announcing ER/Studio Data Architect 9.5.1
We are pleased to announce that the latest version of ER/Studio Data Architect version 9.5.1 has been released. It contains two enhancements and 68 bug fixes. The enhancements are listed below:...
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ER/Studio Compare Merge Tricks: Copying a Table and Its Relationships
One of our customers recently asked us if there was a way to copy a single table along with all of its relationships. Normally, you can highlight two or more related tables, copy and paste them, and...
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Universal Mappings through the Compare/Merge Utility
What is Univeral Mapping In the last article we learned how to convert a physical data model from a logical data model using ER/Studio Data Architect. In this article, we will explore on how to work...
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