Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together”—and Data Architecture begins upon creating, storing, and putting two or more characters together, be they sets of records, emails, pictures, audio, video. This resonated well with initial thoughts about Data Architecture, as it is comprised of things, the functionality of those things, and how those things interrelate. However, starting with “things” has limitations.
In the 1990s, Data Architecture required a technical expert, like a person in IT and/or an SQL guru, to create a new database and maintain or fix existing ones.
