Data Modeling: A Necessary and Rewarding Aspect of Data Management

Data Modeling: A Necessary
and Rewarding Aspect of Data
Management v1, May 19, 2008 AUTHOR: Joe Maguire (jmaguire@burtongroup.com) TECHNOLOGY THREAD: Data Management CONCLUSION: Data modeling has evolved from an arcane technique for database designers into an entire family of interrelated techniques that serves many constituencies, including techno-phobic business stakeholders and users. The new maturity of modeling tools and techniques arrives in the nick of time, because new technical and regulatory realities demand that enterprises maintain scrupulous awareness of their data and how it is used. Data modeling is no longer for databases only, no longer for technologists only, and no longer optional.
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Table of Contents Synopsis ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Analysis ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Definitions ............................................................................................................................................................ 7 The Basics ........................................................................................................................................................ 7 Reading a Data Model .................................................................................................................................... 9 Types of Data Model ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Other Types of Modeling ............................................................................................................................. 10 Frameworks: How Various Data Models Interrelate .............................................................................. 10 A Simple Framework .............................................................................................. [download for more]