Demystifying LDAP Data

In response to some great feedback collected on my previous article on Demystifying LDAP, my editor has given me the okay to skip the coding and instead dive head first into explaining why the data in a directory server looks the way it does, where objectclasses and attributes come from, why an entry will have multiple objectclass attributes, and all kinds of other details that seem like minutiae until you face a problem as a developer or an administrator that you cannot solve without a solid grasp of how a directory manages data.

It's a non-trivial topic space, really. However, I believe that the content of this article evaporates all of the unnecessarily verbose theory and leaves behind something you can (I hope!) refer back to in times of need.