In the development business, there’s no excuse for a bad design. Unfortunately, you probably know developers who skip through or completely ignore the design process because they don’t understand the ...

Designing a data model that supports the reporting and analytical functions is no different, initially, than any other modeling effort. Understanding the data is crucial. The data architect or modeler ...

The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...

Data can feel overwhelming, especially when it’s scattered across spreadsheets, databases, and countless other sources. If you’ve ever stared at rows of numbers, wondering how to make sense of it all, ...

Data modeling refers to the architecture that allows data analysis to use data in decision-making processes. A combined approach is needed to maximize data insights. While the terms data analysis and ...

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When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...