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EPISODE · Jul 16, 2026 · 12 MIN

The Database Is Not the Data Model

from The Joe Reis Show · host Joe Reis

A short rant based on my new article this week, "The Database Is Not the Data Model" "In discussions with data practitioners, I keep seeing the same confusion. Someone pulls up a DDL file, a folder of dbt or SQL, or an ERD reverse-engineered from a Postgres instance and says: “Here’s our data model.” Not to be pedantic, but that’s a schema. Schemas are great. But data modeling is more than just schema design." Let’s dive into the difference in this podcast and the article. Article: https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/the-database-is-not-the-data-model

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