Data Model Patterns

Table of contents

1. About This eBook
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Also Available from Dorset House Publishing Co.
5. Dedication
6. Acknowledgments
7. Contents
8. Figures and Tables
9. Foreword
10. Preface
11. 1. Introduction
    1. Data Modeling’s Promise—and Failure
    2. About Modeling Conventions
    3. These Models and Your Organization
    4. Who Should Read this Book?
12. 2. Data Modeling Conventions
    1. Syntactic Conventions
    2. Positional Conventions
    3. Semantic Conventions
    4. References
13. 3. The Enterprise and Its World
    1. Parties
    2. Employee Assignments
    3. Organizations
    4. Addresses
    5. Geographic Locations
    6. Reporting Relationships
    7. About Types
    8. About Points of View
    9. In Summary
14. 4. Things of the Enterprise
    1. Products and Product Types
    2. Inventory
    3. Structure
    4. Heterogeneous Entities
    5. A Variation
    6. References
15. 5. Procedures and Activities
    1. Some Definitions
    2. Dividing Activities
    3. Work Orders
    4. Labor Usage
    5. Actual Asset Usage
    6. Kinds of Work Orders
    7. In Summary
16. 6. Contracts
    1. Purchase Orders and Sales Orders
    2. User Specifications
    3. Contract Roles
    4. Employment Contracts
    5. Marketing Regions and Districts
    6. Deliveries of Products and Services
    7. Summary of Material Movements
    8. In Summary
17. 7. Accounting
    1. Basic Bookkeeping
    2. Summarization
    3. References
18. 8. The Laboratory
    1. Samples, Tests, and Observations
    2. Derived Observations
    3. Test Types
    4. Sample Methods
    5. Testing for Material Composition
    6. Tests as Activities
19. 9. Material Requirements Planning
    1. Planning Finished Products
    2. Determining Component Requirements
    3. Firm Planned Orders
    4. The Manufacturing Planning Model
    5. The Planning Model
20. 10. Process Manufacturing
    1. More about Assets
    2. Structure and Fluid Paths
    3. Flows
    4. Processes
    5. Monitoring Processes
21. 11. Documents
    1. The Document
    2. Structure
    3. Roles
    4. Subject and Contents
    5. Versions
    6. Variable Format Forms
    7. References
22. 12. Lower-Level Conventions
    1. Things, Thing Types, and Categories
    2. Addresses
    3. Roles
    4. Resources
    5. Relationships
    6. Variable Length Records
    7. Usually One, Sometimes Many
    8. Mathematical Expressions in the Data Model
    9. The Universal Data Model
    10. A Final Example
    11. References
23. Bibliography
24. Index