with David McGovern One purpose of our contributions here is to suggest a vocabulary that avoids confusion not just within the formal logic...

“I have read this article in an effort to boost my academic knowledge on data modeling a bit and still have no idea what this academic autho...

Note: Reader mail (rm) posts are exchanges with my readers that raise fundamental issues. I may improve language for clarity and amplify wi...

Note: In "Setting Matters Straight" posts I debunk online pronouncements that involve fundamentals which I first post on Linked...

Note: In "Setting Matters Straight" posts I debunk online pronouncements that involve fundamentals which I first post on Linked...

Note: "Then & Now" (t&n) is a new version of what used to be the "Oldies but Goodies" (obg) series. To demons...

  Note: "Setting Matters Straight" is a new format: I post on LinkedIn an online Q&A involving data fundamentals to encoura...

 “A data model is a collection of concepts ... used to describe the structure of a database...data types, relationships and constraints...is...

Note: To demonstrate the correctness and stability due to a sound theoretical foundation relative to the industry's fad-driven "co...

Note: To demonstrate the correctness and stability due to a sound theoretical foundation relative to the industry's fad-driven "...

Note: Each "Test Your Foundation Knowledge" post presents one or more misconceptions about data fundamentals. To test your know...

'These new data technologies were developed because there are new usage scenarios for data — which do not fit into the relational model....

Note: To demonstrate the correctness and stability conferred by a sound theoretical foundation relative to the industry's fad-driven, a...

Note: To demonstrate the correctness and stability of database designs provided by a sound foundation relative to the industry's fad-dr...

Note: To demonstrate the stability afforded by a sound foundation relative to the industry's fad-driven cookbook practices, I am re-pu...

“The RDM is semantically weak ... struggles with consistent granularity and has limitations at the property level... it has no concept of d...

“... the concept of a state group is indeed a missing modeling concept in relational/current data models...” Thus in a LinkedIn exchange....

Note: About TYFK posts (Test Your Foundation Knowledge) see the post insert below. “Traditional databases ... don't have a multi-mod...

In an old article I used a Hay-Ross exchange to illustrate how disregard for fundamentals and the associated name proliferation -- which un...

“Data modelling, star schema, snow flakes, data vault. Implementing virtual data warehouses (many stage to modify relationships). Normalis...