[.ca] Data Modeler's Workbench: Tools and Techniques for ... (ISBN 0471111759)

The Best New Data Modeling Book in Years!:
Steve Hoberman has written a truly valuable book that is sure to advance the discipline of data modeling. The writing style make it a comfortable and interesting book to read, and the organization makes it useful as a reference. Steve's concepts, definitions, and classification schema help to advance data modeling as a learnable and repeatable process. Many aspects of this book added to my knowledge of data modeling. I learned some new techniques, and I've been a data modeling practitioner since the early 1980's. This is a must for every data modeler's bookshelf. I believe the single greatest impact this book will make is in its attention to data modeling as a human process as well as a technical one.

Great book, got me going quick:
This is a wonderful book. I just purchased it on a whim. When I got it I found that the step-by-step approach and the various templates were invaluable in helping me plan my data-modeling project and rallying others around the plan of action. Much recommended to anyone doing data-modeling.

Excellent repository of checklists in the book:
The book is based on actual experience as opposed to the theoretical treatment modeling receives in many books. Steve has shared a lot of practical REAL LIFE checklists which help in extracting domain ... very useful !!!

Data Modeler's Workbench:
It is an excellent hands-on source for beginners and experienced data modeling professionals.

A logical approach to logical data modeling:
What I liked most about this book was that all the techniques were explained in the order in which they should be applied. For example the subject area analysis techniques were discussed and occur before the subject area modeling techniques. It was very clear how the techniques in the later chapters relied upon the results from techniques in the earlier chapters. I also found the introductions to each of the chapters very entertaining.