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• Busy months ahead

  Almost two months have passed since my last blog post. And while it’s true that I’ve had (much) longer breaks, I do have a good reason now. All the time that I would normally at least in part spend on preparing new blog posts is now reserved for preparing Read More... Posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:48 PM by Hugo Kornelis | 2 Comments Filed under: T-SQL, Conference, Indexing, SQL Server 2008, Database design, Data modeling, SQL Server 2012

• Principles of Modeling: the Reproducibility Principle

  A year or so ago, I watched a few episodes of a Dutch television program that had an interesting format. The name of the series was (or is, I have no idea if it still runs) “Sterren op het doek” (“Stars on Canvas”). Every episode featured a Dutch celebrity, Read More... Posted Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:48 PM by Hugo Kornelis | 5 Comments Filed under: Conference, Database design, Data modeling

• Principles of Modeling: the Concreteness Principle

  In an earlier post , I talked about the Jargon Principle, one of three principles I learned in 1994 and that have not only helped make me a better modeler, but that I have found to be very valuable in many other situations as well. Today, I will cover Read More... Posted Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:41 AM by Hugo Kornelis | 3 Comments Filed under: Database design, Data modeling

• Principles of Modeling: the Jargon Principle

  In one of my previous posts , I discussed whether data modeling is art or science, and I concluded that, unfortunately, the current state of affairs is that it’s closer to art than to science, whereas I would like to see the opposite. And I think that Read More... Posted Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:39 PM by Hugo Kornelis | 4 Comments Filed under: Database design, Data modeling

• Data modeling: art or science?

  When I started blogging here on sqlblog.com , I intended to write about stuff like T-SQL, performance, and such; but also about data modeling and database design. In reality, the latter has hardly happened so far – but I will try to change that in the Read More... Posted Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:04 AM by Hugo Kornelis | 11 Comments Filed under: Database design, Data modeling