Steve Hoberman
Steve Hoberman has worked as a business intelligence and data management practitioner and trainer since 1990. He is a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP), having achieved mastery level certification in data analysis and design. He is a popular and frequent presenter at industry conferences, both nationally and internationally. Hoberman is a columnist and frequent contributor to industry publications, as well as the author of Data Modeler's Workbench and Data Modeling Made Simple (available for purchase through the DM Review bookstore). He is the founder of the Design Challenges group, inventor of the Data Model Scorecard and a recognized innovator and thought leader in the field of data modeling. He can be reached at me@stevehoberman.com.
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Recent Stories From this Author
Spam Model
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Ontology and Taxonomy
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Timeless Dimensional Model
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Think Data Instead of Process
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A Dimensional Enterprise Data Model
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Recursive Fact Table?
November 2, 2007 Can a recursive relationship on a fact table actually be physically implemented?
Broken Shells
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