Themis Inc. - Advanced Data Modeling Training Class/Course from Themis

This is a workshop and relies on realistic exercises. You will learn how to apply leading edge data modeling principles to practical and difficult modeling situations. All of the exercises have been derived from real modeling situations.

This workshop emphasizes three things: 1. analysis of business rules to develop detailed understanding of the business; 2. expression of these in the data model; and 3. the use of these to verify the entity model. The entity model must support process requirements, editing and validation constraints, and time considerations.

Two types of business rules are distinguished: static rules that are represented in associations among entities; and dynamic rules which represent processing requirements. Non-procedural techniques for expressing rules, triggers, and automatic actions are examined.

The workshop focuses especially on comprehensive transaction discovery, complex event histories, state transition and time dependent constraints. The concepts of entity life cycle and compatible conventions for their specifications are introduced. So too are various entity abstraction techniques. As much as possible business rules are expressed against the minimal piece of data to which they are applicable. This provides a leading-edge bases for object-based application analysis and database systems development.

AUDIENCE (Return to Top)

Data analysts, data administrator, database designers, system analysts and designers, and other practicing data modelers.

TOPICS (Return to Top)

Review of Data Modeling
Business Rules
Creating Data Views
Modeling Time and Change
Abstraction in Data Modeling
Inheritance Rules
Flexibility in Models
Different Kinds of Relationships
Entity Life Histories
Process Discovery Methods
Model Reconciliation
Object Orientation Review
Data Design Compromises
Summary and Conclusion