Re: Len Silverston's Universal Data Models sanity

Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.05.04.12.51.09.504285_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>...

> OTOH, I am really tired of doing everything from
> scratch... universal data models should really be there, only with a
> better foundation...

It is not so easy. There are different accounting cultures. American accounting data models are strange to me.

On the other hand what I miss more in such books is that the designs don't represent the vast majority of the business rules like integrity constraints and derived data and they are highly redundant.

For instance the stock of an article could be derived from the inputs and the outputs of the article.

> I'll try to coach my bosses into allowing me to
> post what we develop here, perhaps... it won't be quite A-OK, but
> perhaps good enough for starters.

In wich sectors do you work?

I have several designs I could post, but I have to translate them first.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Tue May 04 2004 - 19:15:45 CDT