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 ...

Over the past decade, firms have taken the plunge to become data driven. They have amassed data, invested in technologies, and paid handsomely for analytical talent. Yet for many, a strong, ...

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The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...

When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...