Data Modelling Contentious Issues

Name: Data Modelling Contentious Issues
Start: 2001-02-21
End: 2001-02-21
Location: The Ontario Club, 5th Floor, Commerce Court South 30 Wellington Street West (Bay and Wellington), Toronto

This presentation will summarise the most contentious data modelling issues discussed on the Data Modelling List, a 2500+ subscriber discussion group. These participants represent data modelling practitioners from all over the world, working with a variety of tools, techniques, standards, and cultures. Topics will include:

Modelling of Party and Party Roles
Surrogate Keys versus Natural Keys
Who Has the Final Say on the Data Model
What’s Logical and What’s Physical
Are Classwords Dead?
Data versus Process and What About Objects?
Standardized Data Models? What are They Worth?
Is that One ‘L’ or Two?

This will be an interactive presentation where each topic will be give a short background presentation, the audience will vote, then issues will be debated and discussed.

Speaker

Karen Lï¿½pez, Info Advisors, is IRMAC Past President. She is also gaining a more wide-spread reputation for a number of data-related discussion groups that she manages and moderates. The Data Modelling List has been particularly successful enjoying spirited contributions and debate from many practising modellers including some well-known thought-leaders.