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 ...

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For the past 20 years or so, we've seen a growing demand for accountability in the public and nonprofit sectors. It's not enough to document your program's outputs—say, the number of students who took ...

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 ...

Reading a data model can be a little intimidating, and comprehending some of the larger models can be comparable to reading the schematic of a 747 airliner. Yet, new developers are often thrown into ...

The object of this paper is to show how one is able to construct a paraconsistent theory of models that reflects much of the classical one. In other words the aim is to demonstrate that there is a ...