Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!pd7cy2so!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Data Models - why? Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:22:23 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1071274848.391356@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5384e5a0.0312121159.76b198f1@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <5384e5a0.0312121159.76b198f1@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 21 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.misc:133977 Ken Haubrock wrote: > I need as many bullet points on the worth and usefulness of data > models as I can get. What is the ROI on creating data models? why have > them? what good do they do me? what am I missing if I don't have them? > Any and all good reasons for creating data models. > > thanks > kah Open your textbook and read it. I know it is finals week. But it is never too late to start. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)