Download e-book for iPad: Data Model Scorecard: Applying the Industry Standard on Data by Steve Hoberman

info types are the most medium used to speak facts requisites from enterprise to IT, and inside IT from analysts, modelers, and designers, to database designers and builders. consequently you want to get the information version correct. yet how do you identify correct? that is the place the information version Scorecard comes in.

The facts version Scorecard is an information version caliber scoring device containing ten different types aimed toward bettering the standard of your organization's information versions. lots of my consulting assignments are devoted to making use of the knowledge version Scorecard to my client's information types - i'm going to make it easier to follow the Scorecard during this booklet.

This booklet, written for those who construct, use, or assessment facts versions, comprises the knowledge version Scorecard template and an evidence in addition to many examples of every of the 10 Scorecard different types. There are 3 sections:
In part I, info Modeling and the necessity for Validation, obtain a brief info modeling primer in bankruptcy 1, comprehend why it is very important get the knowledge version correct in bankruptcy 2, and know about the knowledge version Scorecard in bankruptcy three.
In part II, info version Scorecard different types, we are going to clarify all of the ten different types of the information version Scorecard. There are ten chapters during this part, each one bankruptcy devoted to a particular Scorecard category:

• Chapter four: Correctness
• Chapter five: Completeness
• Chapter 6: Scheme
• Chapter 7: Structure
• Chapter eight: Abstraction
• Chapter nine: Standards
• Chapter 10: Readability
• Chapter eleven: Definitions
• Chapter 12: Consistency
• Chapter thirteen: Data

In part III, Validating facts types, we'll organize for the version overview (Chapter 14), conceal the way to aid through the version evaluation (Chapter 15), after which overview a knowledge version established upon an exact venture (Chapter 16).