Data Modeling for Information Professionals with CDROM [Hardcover]

Bob Schmidt (Author), David Warren (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 1998

8045k-6 "A powerful, yet easy-to-use resource for training people in data modeling principles. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs to develop data modeling competence." Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services, www.ies.aust.com/~ieinfo. "An outstanding vehicle for learning the mysteries of data/object modeling." David Hay, President, Essential Strategies, Inc., www.essentialstrategies.com, author of Data Model Patterns, The most fun you can have learning data modeling! No matter what role you play in managing information, you need an in-depth understanding of how to structure data. Data Modeling for Information Professionals gives you what you need - painlessly! Based on an interactive course that's been earning raves for years, it's the informal, friendly, real-world introduction to data modeling. *Discover what data models are, what makes them successful, and what makes them fail. *Walk through every component of an enterprise data model. *Understand domains, predicates, entities, classes, relationships, attributes, and more. *Learn from enterprise case studies and extensive nontrivial examples.* Great for data administrators, analysts, SMEs, DBAs, and project managers! Comprehensive, insightful, and entertaining, Data Modeling for Information Professionals is the easy way to learn the data modeling techniques you can't afford not to know! REPOSITORY ON CD-ROM The many illustrations in this book expand and link when you launch the free data model using the included SILVERRUN CASE tool. Export this royalty-free model to jump start your own work and to practice using your own CASE tool. Or build your model u sing SILVERRUN, a leading tool for multiplatform, enterprise-capable business modeling.

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“A powerful, yet easy-to-use resource for training people in data modeling principles. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs to develop data modeling competence.” Clive Finkelstein, Information Engineering Services, ies.aust/~ieinfo.

“An outstanding vehicle for learning the mysteries of data/object modeling.” David Hay, President, Essential Strategies, Inc., essentialstrategies, author of Data Model Patterns,

The most fun you can have learning data modeling!

No matter what role you play in managing information, you need an in-depth understanding of how to structure data. Data Modeling for Information Professionals gives you what you need — painlessly! Based on an interactive course that's been earning raves for years, it's the informal, friendly, real-world introduction to data modeling.

* Discover what data models are, what makes them successful, and what makes them fail.
* Walk through every component of an enterprise data model.
* Understand domains, predicates, entities, classes, relationships, attributes, and more.
* Learn from enterprise case studies and extensive nontrivial examples.
* Great for data administrators, analysts, SMEs, DBAs, and project managers!

Comprehensive, insightful, and entertaining, Data Modeling for Information Professionals is the easy way to learn the data modeling techniques you can't afford not to know!

REPOSITORY ON CD-ROM

The many illustrations in this book expand and link when you launch the free data model using the included SILVERRUN CASE tool. Export this royalty-free model to jump start your own work and to practice using your own CASE tool. Or build your model u sing SILVERRUN, a leading tool for multiplatform, enterprise-capable business modeling.

About the Author

BOB SCHMIDT has sixteen years' experience in IS™ as a consultant for Arthur Andersen & Co. and Ernst & Young, as a successful entrepreneur developing advanced interactive data modeling education, and as an award-winning lecturer for DAMA, ODTUG, and DECUS. His mission is “to quickly and accurately design and implement large-scale business systems for economic wallop.”

DAVID WARREN holds a Ph.D. in nineteenth century British Literature and has extensive expertise in hypertext and multimedia instruction. He has contributed greatly to the fun and readability of this book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 279 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (July 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130804509
• ISBN-13: 978-0130804501
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,626,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A philosophy of data modeling, June 7, 2001

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Robert Hoeppner (Southwick, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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When I was faced with creating a data model for an entire system for the first time, I instructed myself from this book for the theory, and from "The Data Modeling Handbook" by Reingruber and Gregory for the implementation details. There are many books on databases, some of them huge, which cover the same old rules about the five normal forms, etc. What absorbed my interest in this book is that it described how to model a relational database using concepts which, to me, seemed somewhat object-oriented. This reasonably-sized book was a very readable, informative exposition of the practical theory to have in mind when conceptualizing a database. The database built with the advice from this book is still going strong today...it's robust, flexible and expandable. Some credit for that goes to the lessons learned from this book.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An original approach, March 16, 2000

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I found this book to be a refreshing approach to teaching data modeling. With the current confusion between "object models" and "data models", Bob does a good jobe of presenting the concepts fundamental to both. His sequence is unusual (discussing occurrences before classes), but I think this is useful. I definitely recommend it to anyone trying to learn the field.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Most Excellent Book, February 9, 2001

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Fred Johnson (Logan, UT USA) - See all my reviews

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I am a professor here at Utah State University and I have been teaching the undergraduate database course at various places for +9 years as well as researching accounting and databases for 7 years. I quickly grew tired of standard database textbooks as they are either simply a glossary of terms or a series of mathematical proofs with little real-world value. Almost all college textbooks teach modeling elements but do not teach real world issues related to data modeling. This book really hits the critical data modeling issues. This book combined with a good SQL book is a much better choice for students that desire to become database professionals. A more advanced data modeling book would be the David Hay book. These are THE two best books on data modeling bar none!!!