The Data Model Resource Book: v.1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises: Vol 1
The Data Model Resource Book: v.1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises: Vol 1 by Len Silverston
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 542
- ISBN:
- 0471380237
- Product Group:
- book
- Publisher:
- John Wiley & Sons
- Publication Date:
- April 9, 2001
- BooksForGeeks.com ID:
- 3330
This revised edition of Volume 1 provides a common set of data models for specific core functions shared by most businesses. New chapters cover areas such as data marts for financial analysis and many chapters have been updated to reflect changes, improvements and growth in the field.
Reviews for The Data Model Resource Book: v.1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises: Vol 1
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Great Modelling Support!
Rated out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2006
These books are just great and I'm impressed how the parts build up a consistent whole. I've studied volume one in detail and modelled most of it in a CASE tool. And used it as major outline for an (real) Enterprise Logical Datamodel. When compared with some commercial package's models Mr Silverstone's structures seem to have had quite a bit of influence.
Not only I have learnt a lot from these two books :) -
There's more to this than a set of models
Rated out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2005
You might be tempted (as I was, at first) to just dip into this book and use it as a source of patterns for producing data models. And if you do that, then you will find some very useful patterns as well as saving a lot of time. But that would be a shame, because by starting at the beginning and reading the whole book, I found that as well as a very comprehensive, rigourous and coherent set of models, I also got an understanding of the underlying structures and approach. And this approach has proved to be extremely useful when dealing with any new data structures. Someone described this as 'the second data modelling book you should buy', and I agree with that.