I always look forward to your magazine because I can learn a lot from the articles. So I was disappointed by J. L. Weldon's "A Career in Data Modeling" (June). The treatment of data modeling was shallow and facile. If data modeling is so simple, why do so many poor data models cause so much trouble for those companies trying to implement data warehouses? If data modeling is so simple, why do people's eyes glaze over during discussions of data models?
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