Free Data Models?

website@infoadvisors.com — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:07:00 GMT

Free Data Models?!!!!

Barry Williams at DatabaseAnswers.org has done a wonderful thing -- he has put together more than 450 free kick start data models for you to use when you want to start modeling a part of your project.

The snippet view I've posted above goes on for pages. There really are more than four hundred data models to look at.

He writes on his website:

Why do I do this for free ?
I design these Data Models for free to give something back to the Database community that has provided me with a good (and interesting) living for the past 15 years.

Each Model is usually what I can do in the 20 minutes each day of voluntary work that I allocate from my consulting work.

My intention is to provide a wide range of 'Kick Start' Models that anyone can use as a starting-point, and could extend cleanly and logically, with appropriate reference to the Business Rules.

It is not my intention to provide Models that can be used off-the-shelf to meet the requirements of a large commercial organisation.
After all, that is one of the things I do for a living !!!

Barry has spent over 5 years putting these together, in 20 minute increments. I applaud is reasons and his offering them to you for free, even in an Access database if you want.

Be sure you send Barry a thank you for supplying these. It's just wonderful that he has shared them with the Data Management community.

Karen Lopez: Musings on Data, Process, and Architecture

Free Data Models?