I started out in Database Design early in my application development career. I still remember being issued with an official IBM stencil for drawing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). Change ...

Data modeling is the procedure of crafting a visual representation of an entire information system or portions of it in order to convey connections between data points and structures. The objective is ...

Nextrials, Inc. (www.nextrials.com), a leader in clinical research software and services, today announced that its electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical trial data management platform,Prism TM, ...

Sybase Inc.'s goals for PowerDesigner are nothing if not ambitious: a single modeling tool for tracking data definitions everywhere in an organization -- and Sybase doesn't just mean databases when it ...

Data modeling, at its core, is the process of transforming raw data into meaningful insights. It involves creating representations of a database’s structure and organization. These models are often ...

Student editions are now available of MacA&D and WinA&D tools for software design. Students can draw all 14 major diagram types specified by UML for object-oriented design and create multilevel data ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...