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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Rene Veldwijk I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a book about database design for quite some time. Some older Dutch IT professionals may remember my earlier publications on database design: “Ten Commandments” and “Time in the Database”—both compiled and sold out in no time. Back then, I was still young and naïve, albeit…
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WTF is a model? by Joe Reis
Author: Joe Reis (find the original here: https://joereis.substack.com/p/joes-nerdy-rants-5?, We are republishing this blog with permission of Joe Reis.) “We are not modeling reality, but the way information about reality is processed, by people.” – William Kent (Data and Reality, 1978). The world of data is so jumbled that you might be forgiven for not being…
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Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling
Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling (FCO-IM) is a method for building conceptual information models. Such models can then be automatically transformed into entity-relationship models (ERM), Unified Modeling Language (UML), relational models, data vault models, and many other artifacts. FCO-IM is widely taught in the Netherlands and worldwide, amongst which are universities of Professional Education in…