DataBeat week 06/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week. Data Modeling "Data Modeler Of 2020" YouTube video by Steve Hoberman addresses topics like modeling for NoSQL or BigData, Fact Based Modeling, becoming more agile, etc. "Basic...
DataBeat week 05/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week. Data Architecture "Immutability changes everything" by Pat Helland deals with immutability as a key architectural concept. Append-only computing instead of changing data is...
DataBeat week 04/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week. Data Storage "Introducing Espresso - LinkedIn's hot new distributed document store" by Aditya Auradkar contains a detailled introduction (data model, architecture, key...
DataBeat week 03/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data Architecture"Hyper-threading – how does it double CPU throughput?" by Aurimas Mikalauskas shows some interesting tests with Hyper-threading turned on and provoked some...
DataBeat week 02/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data ModelingSteve Hoberman asked the question "Create a logical data model?" on his blog and supplied his and responder's opinions. There is an overall agreement that a logical...
Data Vault resources
An overview of Data Vault (data modeling / architecture / methodology) resources - no claim to be complete - order of entries below are arbitrary Books The Official Data Vault Standards Document (Version 1.0) (Data Warehouse Architecture), Dan Linstedt, 2012...
DataBeat week 01/2015
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data ModelingData independence as the key idea of RDBMS is illustrated in "Relational algebra-How it makes Relational Databases go faster" by Kyle Hailey. Algebraic optimization...
DataBeat week 52/2014
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data Modeling"Hashing in SQL Server and Oracle for the same output" by Roelant Vos contains code examples how to get the same MD5 hash values in Oracle and SQL Server in order...
Book Review “Data Architecture: A Primer for the Data Scientist” by W.H. Inmon / D. Linstedt
The book "Data Architecture: A Primer for the Data Scientist" by W.H. Inmon / D. Linstedt contains the subtitle "Big Data, Data Warehouse and Data Vault" which summarizes pretty well the main focus of the book.The first chapter introduces and defines structured and...
DataBeat week 51/2014
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data ModelingThe blog article "Data Vault 2.0 Staging Area learnings & suggestions" by Roelant Vos shows an approach to generate hash keys for Data Vault 2.0 in the staging...
DataBeat week 50/2014
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data ModelingBlog post, link to web session and source code on how to use BIML to generate Data Vault. BIML (Business Intelligence Markup Language) is a XML dialect for defining...
DataBeat week 49/2014
Reference to blogs, tweets, discussions, etc that caught my attention during the last week.Data ModelingData Modeling and NoSQL? Data Modeling gets more and more important in the "schema-less" world because a suitable data model ensures data quality, performance, and...