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Mixed Model Arts is on Amazon! (opens the original)
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The Five Camps of Data Modeling (and Which One You’re Stuck In) (opens the original)
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This article is the first in a series of free and paid adaptations from Mixed Model Arts. Here’s a look at the Five Camps of data modeling, adapted from Chapter 1 (The Dawn of Mixed Model Arts).A few years back, an app team stored their entire product catalog in a massive JSON column in Postgres. Nested documents, pricing, reviews, arrays. For the app, it was great: fast reads, zero joins, fast deploys.Practical Data Modeling is a reader-supported publication. T
A Quick Update on Ebook Access (opens the original)
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Here’s a quick update on how ebook access works for paid subscribers.Until now, I’ve offered the ebook to annual subscribers and to monthly subscribers. How it worked with monthly subscribers wasn’t exactly clear, and this is my fault. Earlier this week I instituted a rule where monthly subs could get the book once they’d been subscribed for at least four months.That worked (very painfully), but it’s far more complicated than it needs to be. Substack doesn’t offer an easy way to triage various s
The Return of Conceptual Data Modeling (opens the original)
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Conceptual data modeling is making a comeback (some might say it never went away). In this episode of The Joe Reis Show, I chat with Sami Hero about the nuances of conceptual modeling in the age of AI.If you’d like to learn more about conceptual data modeling, check out Chapter 14 of Mixed Model Arts (paid).<p class="cta-caption"
The Mixed Model Arts Manifesto (opens the original)
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