Data Modeling Challenges Workshop
Steve Hoberman
President
Steve Hoberman & Associates, LLC
March 5, 2007
8:30 AM - 4:45 PM
Level: Advanced
Ever ski? Each trail is graded a green circle for
easy, a blue square for moderate, or a black diamond for difficult.
The modeling challenges you face in the office can be put into similar
categories.
This workshop includes a carefully selected collection of easy, moderate, and difficult scenarios. After mastering easy challenges, you'll advance to more moderate and difficult challenges. This is not just a lecture. You'll all get hands-on experience. The more times you fall and pick yourselves up again, the more trees you hit, the more you challenge yourself, the more you'll grow your experiences and knowledge base.
Just like skiing, expect a fun yet intense day. By the completion of the workshop, you might be sore and sweaty, but you'll obtain a higher level of experience and have a few more techniques to apply when you get back to the office.
This workshop includes three modules. Module 1 contains the easy Green Trails, Module 2 the moderate Blue Trails, and Module 3 the difficult Diamond Trails.
This workshop includes a carefully selected collection of easy, moderate, and difficult scenarios. After mastering easy challenges, you'll advance to more moderate and difficult challenges. This is not just a lecture. You'll all get hands-on experience. The more times you fall and pick yourselves up again, the more trees you hit, the more you challenge yourself, the more you'll grow your experiences and knowledge base.
Just like skiing, expect a fun yet intense day. By the completion of the workshop, you might be sore and sweaty, but you'll obtain a higher level of experience and have a few more techniques to apply when you get back to the office.
This workshop includes three modules. Module 1 contains the easy Green Trails, Module 2 the moderate Blue Trails, and Module 3 the difficult Diamond Trails.
- Green trails will strengthen our skills in areas such as business rules and assertions, normalization, nullability and definitions.
- Blue trails will strengthen our skills in areas such as abstraction, data politics, reverse engineering, surrogate keys, and summary tables.
- Diamond trails will strengthen our skills in areas such as dealing
with unrealistic timeframes, history, integration, BCNF/4NF/5NF,
and dimensional modeling.
Steve Hoberman has worked as a business intelligence and
data management practitioner and trainer since 1990. He is a Certified
Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP), having achieved mastery level
certification in data analysis and design. He is a popular and frequent
presenter at industry conferences, both nationally and internationally.
Steve is a columnist and frequent contributor to industry publications,
as well as the author of Data Modeler’s Workbench and Data Modeling
Made Simple. He is the founder of the Design Challenges group, inventor
of the Data Model Scorecard, and a recognized innovator and thought-leader
in the field of data modeling.