Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – August 2010 by Larry Burns
What is “Normal”?
Larry Burns discusses the degree of normalization that is appropriate in a database schema and how that determination can be made.

Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – May 2010 by Larry Burns
A Vatican II for Data Governance
Larry describes the ramifications of a company directive that access to data outside a particular application database must be done via web services written by the company's integration group and implemented on the company's integration hub server.

Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – Feb 2010 by Larry Burns
Model-Driven
Larry Burns relates the benefits of approaching data modeling in an Agile fashion.

Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide – November 2009 by Larry Burns
The Evolution of the DBA
Larry Burns discusses how Agile is changing the traditional role of the DBA.

Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide - August 2009 by Larry Burns
In Defense of the “Intelligent Database”
Larry Burns explains why it makes the most sense to do the data work in the DBMS.

Conquering the Logical-Physical Divide - May 2009 by Larry Burns
The Logical-Physical Divide
Larry Burns describes the Data Services Stack – a model, or paradigm, for the interaction of applications and data, based on models such as the TCP/IP stack (in which higher-level communication protocols are built on top of lower-level ones).

Agile: The Good News, The Bad News by Larry Burns
Larry Burns describes Agile Development and discusses the positive advantages of this approach to application development.

Too Simple, Too Soon by Larry Burns
The author explains an application development approach advocated by many proponents of agile application development that can cause future problems for developers, while potentially sacrificing the integrity and reusability of the data.

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