Months ago I talked to Stephan Volkmann, the student I mentor, about possibilities to write a seminar paper. One suggestion was to write about Information Modeling, namely FCO-IM, ORM2 and NIAM, siblings of the Fact-Orietented Modeling (FOM) family. In my opinion, FOM is the most powerful technique for building conceptual information models, as I wrote in a previous blogpost Sketch Notes Reflections at TDWI Roundtable with FCO-IM.

Dimension-Ids im Data Vault

Resiliente und temporal korrekte Dimension-Ids für Fakten- und Dimensionstabellen bei FastChangeCo

Sind in einem dimensionalen Datenmodell, aufbauend auf einem Data-Vault-Datenmodell, Integer-Werte als Dimension-Ids immer noch notwendig?

A few weeks ago I received a surprisingly open and honest feedback on my recently published article "13 tips ...". I never ever expected that! After a short email exchange, I was allowed to publish the feedback anonymously. Below is the incredible feedback[3]. You see, you are not alone with the challenges of a Data Vault project:

Hi Dirk

Thanks for sending me the English version of the paper. I'm based in […] [1] and Data Vault is not generally established here yet.

Oder wie Sie erfolgreich jede Ebene des Data Warehouse torpedieren

Sie sind erfolgsverwöhnt und haben das ewige Schulterklopfen satt? Sie wollen nicht auch noch bei Ihrem ersten Versuch zur Umsetzung eines Data-Vault-Projekts so erfolgreich sein, dass alle Kollegen neidisch werden?

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