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Summary: A terrific tool for the I.T. developer
Review: 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."
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Summary: A Great Starting Point
Review: This book is a great starting point for anyone building object or data models for business applications.
It is full of information and you can add or remove things to create a specific data model.
Pay no attention to the people that are saying it is disappointing because it is so general. It is a great starting point and I don't think you are ever going to find a data model in a book that doesn't need some sort of specialisation or customisation. I have recommended this book to everyone I have talked to about data models since I got it a month ago. If you are anything other than a specialist data/object modeler, then you will find great value in this book.
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Summary: Excellent Resource
Review: This book will help managers, business analysts, architects and data analysts gain an understanding of various industries and integration challenges facing IT professionals. Len's concepts, insights, and models provide a valuable contribution to business and data architecture.
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Summary: nice job getting us off and running
Review: very nicely done....really helped us out....much information and well organized....glad I ignored the review from a "seasoned data modeler" and bought the book....I think the book is very useful for the majority of us who are struggling with this problem....again nice job putting this all together !!!
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Summary: More than just a set of models
Review: 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.
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