Beschreibung:
This third volume of the best-selling "e;Data Model Resource Book"e; series revolutionizes the data modeling discipline by answering the question "e;How can you save significant time while improving the quality of any type of data modeling effort?"e; In contrast to the first two volumes, this new volume focuses on the fundamental, underlying patterns that affect over 50 percent of most data modeling efforts. These patterns can be used to considerably reduce modeling time and cost, to jump-start data modeling efforts, as standards and guidelines to increase data model consistency and quality, and as an objective source against which an enterprise can evaluate data models.
This third volume of the best-selling "Data Model Resource Book"series revolutionizes the data modeling discipline by answering thequestion "How can you save significant time while improving thequality of any type of data modeling effort?" In contrast to thefirst two volumes, this new volume focuses on the fundamentalunderlying patterns that affect over 50 percent of most datamodeling efforts. These patterns can be used to considerably reducemodeling time and cost, to jump-start data modeling efforts, asstandards and guidelines to increase data model consistency andquality, and as an objective source against which an enterprise canevaluate data models.
Foreword.Chapter 1 Introduction.Chapter 2 Setting Up Roles: What Parties Do.Chapter 3 Using Roles: How Parties Are Involved.Chapter 4 Hierarchies, Aggregations, and Peer-to-PeerRelationships: The Organization of Similar Data.Chapter 5 Types and Categories: the Classification of Data.Chapter 6 Status: The States of Data.Chapter 7 Contact Mechanisms: How to Get in Touch.Chapter 8 Business Rules: How Things Should Work.Chapter 9 Using the Patterns.Chapter 10 Socializing the Patterns.Index.