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How I Save My Clients $$$ by Creating the Best Data Model the First Time
Topic: Building Better Software
Owner: Kent Graziano
Date: 2014-04-27
Subtopic: Best Practices

A good data model, done right the first time, can save you time and money. We have all seen the charts on the increasing cost of finding a mistake/bug/error late in a software development cycle. Would you like to reduce, or even eliminate, your risk of finding one of those errors late in the game? Of course you would! Who wouldn't? Nobody plans to miss a requirement or make a bad design decision (well nobody sane anyway). No modeler worth their salt wants to leave a model incomplete or incorrect. So what can you do to minimize the risk?

In this talk I will show you a best practice approach to developing your data models that I have been using for over 15 years. It is a simple, repeatable process for reviewing your models. It is one that even a non-modeler could follow. I will share my checklist of what to look for and what to ask the modeler (or yourself) to make sure you get the best possible model. As a bonus I will share how I use SQL Developer Data Modeler to collect the information and report it.


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