Data modeling is dead. It is a product of an era that has passed; that of corporate silos that created their own versions of software to suit their own needs. That is no longer the world in which we live. That era was one that had high costs associated with building and maintaining a database … Read more
I don’t care where you work, or what industry you work in, the IT department is subservient to the business side. Don’t believe me? Let’s look at the data. IT departments are outsourced to companies like IBM all the time. Ever hear stories about people who have worked for two or three companies and never left … Read more
It happens every year. You sit at the table, feeling full and wanting more. So many choices are on the table for you. Having already sampled everything at least once, and despite no longer needing any additional calories, you stand up and stick your fork into plate of juicy turkey flesh. You take a huge … Read more
It is more important than ever before to be constantly learning and adapting. Gone are the days when you could show up at work and fulfill the same role for twenty years.
It’s the night before Valentine’s Day and I know what you are thinking: “What would Tim Berners-Lee be doing right about now?” I’ll tell you what he is doing. He is linking data. After all, that is what drove him to create HTML over 20 years ago. No, he didn’t invent the web. He wasn’t … Read more
[This was first posted to Technorati on February 6th, 2012. You can read the original here.] I keep hearing the term “Big Data”. My old-school IT instincts always makes me think of inefficiently storing two-letter state abbreviation codes inside of an nvarchar(50) field because that’s the default data type you get when creating a database table … Read more
