The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises
The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises
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Manufacturer: Wiley
Author: Len Silverston
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2001-03-06
Publisher: Wiley
Label: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 542 Features:
Editorial Review:
A quick and reliable way to build proven databases for core business functions Industry experts raved about The Data Model Resource Book when it was first published in March 1997 because it provided a simple, cost-effective way to design databases for core business functions. Len Silverston has now revised and updated the hugely successful First Edition, while adding a companion volume to take care of more specific requirements of different businesses. Each volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM, which is sold separately. Each CD-ROM provides powerful design templates discussed in the books in a ready-to-use electronic format, allowing companies and individuals to develop the databases they need at a fraction of the cost and a third of the time it would take to build them from scratch. Updating the data models from the First Edition CD-ROM, this resource allows database developers to quickly load a core set of data models and customize them to support a wide range of business functions. Cached date: AWS Called=true You may also be interested in these products:
Still pertinent.. 2007-12-30 I bought this book about a year ago and have successfully applied many of the techniques discussed. I would recommend getting both the book and the CD, they are worth the money. Don't waste your time with the other occupation specific material from this series, once you read and understand the modeling patterns put forth here you will easily be able to apply them to whatever situation you require. It helps to have the CD so you can import the full model into an ER/CASE modeling tool to really visualize how the parts fit together.
A "Must-Have" For Every Modeling Job 2006-10-04 Silverston's books (volume 1 and volume 2) are a "must-have" for any data modeler at the onset of a new project. The books are nicely organized by subject-area (for example, "People and Organizations" or "Human Resources" or "Health Care") and the table-of-contents and indicies are rich and very helpful. You can use these books as your main reference books for every question, meeting, inquiry regarding your modeling work (ex: "why did you model currency in this way?" Or "How do you model vendor and client relationships?".
The book saves me a lot of time. In an essence, you can use the book as a great starting point for your modeling work. Simply use the book to quickly create a "straw man" version of a certain subject-area, customize it to your enterprise's needs, and start "throwing scenarios" at the model in ordre to "break it". You will be able to spend less time on the "mechanics of modeling" and more time thinking through how your model supports the real business needs of your organization.
The Resource Book is just that 2006-02-25 We ordered this book because we are about to begin designing a new information system for our company. Silverston's book addresses many of the issues we found ourselves wrestling with (in designing the CRM portion of the system for instance), and it presents options with the pros and cons of each.
Two surprises I didn't like 2005-10-25 The text of this book was generally good - although it seemed padded out with a massive listing of model metadata. The book comes with a CD. The first surprise was, the CD does not include the Data Definition Language (DDL) for its sample models... there's an extra cost for that. My question to the publisher would be, what good is the CD you provide for free? The second surprise is the illustrations. There are plenty of them, but they look like they were done in a primitive graphics package - not in an enterprise modeling tool. They author seems to have invented his own wierd set of conventions, including "foreign keys do not appear in the entities... that is duplicate information". Before you buy this book, take a look at the illustrations of the models. If you can live with the notation, maybe consider buying it.
Good, but sometimes a little too "kitchen sink" 2005-10-22 I like this book. It definitely saves a lot of time and mistakes while data modelling which is one thing you better get right in your app as data migration to a new model both at the app and database level is often a time consuming and bug prone process.
That being said the locked cd is a nuisance and sometimes the data model becomes almost ridiculously detailed. For instance in one part of the book the author talks about extending the person data model to include things such as the history of the person's gender (for instance if they had multiple sex changes). I have seen a lot of overbuilt data models that had lots of entities that were rarely used and contributed to a significant amount of clutter and generally overwhelmed developers with useless details and planning for corner cases that never happened.
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