Data Model Resource Book

This third volume of the best-selling &quote;Data Model Resource Book&quote; series revolutionizes the data modeling discipline by answering the question &quote;How can you save significant time while improving the quality of any type of data modeling effort?&quote; In contrast to the first two volumes, this new volume focuses on the fundamental, underlying patterns that affect over 50 percent of most data modeling efforts. These patterns can be used to considerably reduce modeling time and cost, to jump-start data modeling efforts, as standards and guidelines to increase data model consistency and quality, and as an objective source against which an enterprise can evaluate data models.