Occasionally one may hear that a data model is “over-normalized,” but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to ...

In the simplest terms, a logical data model is a visual representation of the business rules and requirements covering the universe-of-discourse for a given solution or enterprise, along with some ...

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 ...

Teradata Corp. has introduced the Utilities Logical Data Model (uLDM). As a utility's business needs evolve, the Teradata uLDM helps customer adapt their data warehouse physical model to ensure the ...

MISMO, the standards development body for the mortgage industry released its logical data model as the next generation of the MISMO data exchange, according to a press release. The new model has the ...