- CD-ROM
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Revised Edition, Volume 1 edition (9 April 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471388289
- ISBN-13: 978-0471388289
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 14.2 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"I thought the models in the books were well thought out and adequately explained" (Computer Shopper February 2002)
--This text refers to the
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This CD–ROM, a companion to Len Silverston′s The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition, Volume 1, arms you with a powerful set of data models and data warehouse designs that you can use to jump–start your database development projects. It will save you countless hours and thousands of dollars in database development costs by providing the SQL code you′ll need to implement the models described in the book or reverse–engineer them into your CASE tool.
You′ll get actual proven models for such common business functions as ordering and managing products, handling shipments, invoicing, accounting and budgeting, managing human resources, contact management, and project management. Plus, you′ll find new and expanded models for call center management, product customization, shipping and receiving, payments and collections, budgeting scenarios, and employee qualification and performance. New data mart designs are also provided in this revised edition, including financial analysis, inventory management, and shipping logistics.
You′ll also want to check out The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition, Volume 2 (0–471–35348–5), and its companion data model sets (each sold separately), which feature universal data models tailored to various industries and applications. A free demonstration of the Volume 2 Data Models is available on this CD–ROM product.
Minimum System Requirements:
32–bit operating system such as Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 or higher.
Hard Drive Space:
25 MB required space for installation of files.
Peripherals:
CD–ROM drive. You also will need to have the following applications to make full use of the CD–ROM: a browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator to open the readme.htm and navigate the demo; Visio 2000 required to view the images of the models in native format, although they can alternatively be viewed as JPEGs in a browser or another application.
You′ll get actual proven models for such common business functions as ordering and managing products, handling shipments, invoicing, accounting and budgeting, managing human resources, contact management, and project management. Plus, you′ll find new and expanded models for call center management, product customization, shipping and receiving, payments and collections, budgeting scenarios, and employee qualification and performance. New data mart designs are also provided in this revised edition, including financial analysis, inventory management, and shipping logistics.
You′ll also want to check out The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition, Volume 2 (0–471–35348–5), and its companion data model sets (each sold separately), which feature universal data models tailored to various industries and applications. A free demonstration of the Volume 2 Data Models is available on this CD–ROM product.
Minimum System Requirements:
32–bit operating system such as Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 or higher.
Hard Drive Space:
25 MB required space for installation of files.
Peripherals:
CD–ROM drive. You also will need to have the following applications to make full use of the CD–ROM: a browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator to open the readme.htm and navigate the demo; Visio 2000 required to view the images of the models in native format, although they can alternatively be viewed as JPEGs in a browser or another application.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
Format:Paperback
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 :)
Not only I have learnt a lot from these two books :)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Good, but sometimes a little too "kitchen sink"
21 Oct 2005
Format:Paperback
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.
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.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A terrific tool for the I.T. developer
24 Jun 2001
Format:Paperback
The Data Model Resource Book is as important to a data modeler or application developer as a dictionary is to a writer: you're not at your best without it. Where I've worked, this material has helped me create the architecture for an enterprise data model of our company. Aided by the Resource Book, we build a framework of major tables containing subject areas and the result is a business model to which we can map all of our application databases and data warehouses.
This book is basically rather simple to use; you find the data or subject of interest and then check to see if there are any attributes or relationships in the book that are relevant to your specific application database. This type of a check helps add quality and completeness to your logical and physical model.
But using the book just scratches the surface of its value; it's the author who's responsible for its quality and completeness. I've personally worked with Mr. Silverston who participated in consulting engagements at our firm and I`ve also seen him perform in the classroom setting. He seems to have an uncanny ability to analyze a given business situation-no matter how seemingly bizarre-and to create a model structure that will accommodate any situation.
I highly recommend the Resource Book to business analysts, application developers, programmers, and data warehouse designers.
Ted Kowalski Data Architect, Equilon Enterprises, Houston and author of "Opening Doors--A Facilitator's Handbook."
20 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Two surprises I didn't like
25 Oct 2005
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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.
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