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  1. Access Control
  2. Accidents at Work
  3. Accommodation (Long-term)
  4. Actions,Decisions,People & Property
  5. Afghanistan Rainfall
  6. Agents and Leads
  7. Agents Commissions
  8. Aircraft Parts and Orders
  9. Airline Reservations
  10. Amazon and Starbucks
  11. Animal Shelters
  12. Apartment Rentals
  13. Aquarium Stores
  14. Area Regulations
  15. Archeology
  16. Ars Digita BootCamp
  17. Assets Maintenance
  18. Asylum Seekers and Refugees
  19. Athletes and Events
  20. Athletes and Teams
  21. ATM Machines
  22. Auction Web Site
  23. Avon Cosmetics
  24. Baby-Sitters and Nannies
  25. Badminton Clubs
  26. Ballet Companies (Casting Productions)
  27. Ballet Companies (Org and People)
  28. 'Bang for the Buck' Models
    1. Catalogs of Products
    2. Customers and Products
    3. Customers and Services
    4. Marriages (Contemporary)
    5. Marriages (Traditional)
    6. Partnerships and Relationships
    7. Product Catalogs
    8. Generic Foundation
    9. Reservations
  29. Bank and Branches
  30. Banking (Online)
  31. Bankrupts
  32. Baseball Umpire Scheduling
  33. Basel II Accord
  34. BBC (UK)
  35. Behavior Monitoring
  36. Best Practice
  37. Bidders and Buyers
  38. Bill of Materials
  39. Blogs
  40. BMEWS
  41. Boating Marinas
  42. Bookstore
  43. Bookstore and Warehouses
  44. Books and Libraries
  45. Botanical Gardens
  46. Boutiques
  47. Business 2 Business e-Commerce
  48. Business 2 Consumer e-Commerce
  49. Business Directories
  50. Call Centers
  51. Canal Trips
  52. Car Dealership
  53. Car Hire
  54. Car Park Security
  55. Car Parking Enforcement
  56. Car Parts Suppliers
  57. Carphone Warehouse
  58. Car Sales
  59. Car Service Center
  60. Case Management (Lawyers)
  61. Case Management (Social Workers)
  62. Casinos
  63. Catalogs of Products
  64. Catering Businesses for Schools
  65. Catering Services
  66. Catteries
  67. CD Collection
  68. Cemetaries
  69. Census Results
  70. Charities
  71. Chess Tournaments
  72. Children in Institutions (UNICEF)
  73. Children's Aid Rcds Mgt
  74. Childrens Common Assessment Framework
  75. Children's National Database
  76. Children's Playgroup
  77. Church Members (Visio)
  78. Church Praise Teams
  79. Church Sunday Schools
  80. Church (Youth)
  81. Cinema Bookings
  82. Circus
  83. Cirque du Soleil
  84. Citizens and Services
  85. City Councils
  86. City Hall Certificate Registration
  87. City Licences
  88. City Tourist Guide
  89. Click Stream Analysis
  90. Clients and Consultants
  91. Clients and Fees
  92. Clients and Locations
  93. Clinical Trials
  94. Clown Registry
  95. Club Members
  96. Coach Trips
  97. Commercial Web Sites ...
    1. Avon Cosmetics
    2. Cirque du Soleil
    3. Dog Whisperer
    4. eBay Deals
    5. MyLifeBits Research
    6. NewEgg
    7. SalesForce
    8. Shrek 2 Movie
    9. Ticketmaster
  98. Coding 4 Fun Projects
  99. Communities ...
    1. FAQs and Newsletters
    2. Personalization
    3. Philip Greenspun
    4. Publish/Subscribe & KPI Portal
    5. User Registration
  100. Complaints and Feedback
  101. Competition Results
  102. Conference Centers
  103. CMDB - Configuration Mgt DB
  104. Construction and Manufacturing
  105. Construction Jobs Bidding
  106. Consultants and Clients
  107. Consultant Search Web Site
  108. Contacts and Products
  109. Contact Management
  110. Contract Management
  111. Corporate Intranet
  112. Cosmetics Home Sales
  113. Course Catalogs
  114. CraigsList
  115. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
  116. Credit Accumulation (Europe)
  117. Crisis Call Centers
  118. CRM and Personalization
  119. CRM - Microsoft's Data Model
  120. CSR Framework
  121. CVs and Job Histories (Visio)
  122. Dance School
  123. Data Architecture
  124. Data Dictionary
  125. Data Mashups
  126. Data Warehouse ...
    1. Customers and Purchases
    2. eCommerce Data Warehouse
    3. Loading a Data Warehouse
    4. Pharmaceuticals
    5. Snowflake Design for Transaction
    6. Star Design for Teaching Schedule
    7. Star Design for Transaction (Conceptual)
    8. Star Design for Transaction (Physical)
  127. Databases for Life
  128. Dating Sites
  129. Day Care Centers
  130. Debt Collection
  131. Department Store
  132. Dietician's Consulting Practice
  133. Dictionaries for Foreign Languages
  134. Digital Challenge (UK)
  135. Diseases and Symptoms
  136. Doctor's Practice
  137. Document Management
  138. Document Management (Specific)
  139. Document Publication
  140. Document Workflow
  141. Dog Kennels
  142. Dog Whisperer
  143. Domestic Violence Centers
  144. Drivers Citations Log
  145. Driving School
  146. Education :-
    1. University Course Catalogs
    2. School Management System
    3. Student Accommodation
    4. Student Assessments
    5. Student Assignments
    6. Student Athletes and Teams
    7. Student Exams
    8. Student Exams in Saudi
    9. Student Loans
    10. Student Rosters
    11. Student Work Placements
  147. eBay Deals
  148. e-Commerce
    1. B2B e-Commerce
    2. B2C e-Commerce
    3. Customers, Campaigns and e-Commerce
    4. Games Web Site
    5. Orders & Shipments
    6. Photo Catalogs
  149. e-Government
    1. UK e-Govt Standard Data
  150. Elephant Sanctuaries
  151. Emergency Services
  152. Employees Leave Records
  153. Employees working at Home
  154. Employment Agencies
  155. Endangered Species
  156. Enteprise Data Mashups
  157. Enterprise Information Repository
    1. Data Migration Mapping
    2. Generation of Entities
    3. Glossary of Business terms
    4. Glossary with Queries

  158. EPOS
  159. Equipment Maintenance
  160. Estimating Development Costs
  161. ERP
  162. Event Reservations
  1. Customers :-
    1. Clients and Fees
    2. Clients and Locations
    3. CRM Customer Metrics
    4. CRM and Personalization
    5. CRM Top-Level Architecture
    6. CRM Top-Level Overview
    7. Customers with multi-lingual B2C
    8. Customers at a Bank
    9. Customers at a Bookstore
    10. Customers at a Call Center
    11. Customers and Addresses
    12. Customers and Campaigns
    13. Customers and Car Hire
    14. Customers and Car Sales
    15. Customers and Car Servicing
    16. Customers and Dept Stores
    17. Customers and Deals (UML)
    18. Customers and Deliveries
    19. Customers and e-Commerce
    20. Customers and Games Shops
    21. Customers and Hairdressers
    22. Customers and Hardware Store
    23. Customers and a Health Center
    24. Customers and Insurance
    25. Customers and Invoices
    26. Customers and Loans
    27. Customers and Online Banking
    28. Customers and Orders
    29. Customers and Partial Deliveries
    30. Customers and Phone Bills
    31. Customers and Products
    32. Customers and Purchases Data W'hse
    33. Customers and Services
    34. Customers Card Transactions
    35. Customer Class Scheduling
    36. Customers Comm & Personal
    37. Customer Data
    38. Customer Data Catalog
    39. Customers (Commercial & Personal)
    40. Customer MetaData Repository
    41. Customer Metrics
    42. Customer Order Tracking
    43. Generic Customer Model (Popkin)
  2. FAQs
  3. Families and Wills
  4. Farm Management
  5. Fashion Boutiques
  6. Father of all Data Models
  7. FBI Global Database
  8. Feedback and Complaints
  9. File Archiving Systems
  10. Financial Information Portal
  11. Fingerprint Recognition
  12. Foreign Language Dictionaries
  13. Forensic Science Labs
  14. Forklift Truck Servicing
  15. Franchise Operators
  16. Freight Forwarders
  17. Fuel Coupons Mgt
  18. Fund Raising
  19. Funeral Homes
  20. Games Features
  21. Games Store
  22. Gaming Leagues
  23. Garden Maintenance
  24. Genealogy and Family Trees
  25. Generic Data Models
    1. Circus (Events & Players)
    2. Customers and Services
    3. Document Management
    4. Father of All Models
    5. Generic Foundation
    6. Organisations and People
    7. Organisations, People and Transactions
    8. Organisations,Members & Meetings
    9. Patient Care
    10. Reservations
    11. Shrek 2 Movie (Events & Places)
    12. Transport
    13. User-defined Hierarchies
  26. George Orwell's 1984
  27. Global Accountability
  28. Global Community
  29. Global Consulting
  30. Global Law Firm
  31. Global Project Management New
  32. Global Reference Database
  33. Golf Club Management
  34. Golf Tournaments
  35. Google AdSense
  36. Google Android Phone Platform
  37. GRI Indicators
  38. GRI Repository
  39. GRI User's Portal
  40. Grocery Store
  41. Gym Training Diary
  42. Hairdressers Appointments
  43. Harbour Management
  44. Hardware Sales
  45. Health Centers
  46. Health Clubs
  47. Health Insurance Claims
  48. Help Desk
  49. Hierarchies & Trees
    1. Business Intelligence / MI
    2. Employees
    3. Management Hierarchies
    4. Organization Hierarchies
    5. Parties and Phones
    6. Preferences
    7. Product Hierarchies
    8. Reference Data Manager
    9. User-Defined Hierarchies
    10. Vehicle Parts Manufacture
    11. World Language Classification
      (with Oracle CONNECT BY)
  50. Highways Agency (UK)
  51. Hobbies and Pastimes
    1. Chess Tournaments
    2. Golf Tournaments
    3. Olympic Sports
    4. Swimming Clubs
    5. Sailing Clubs
  52. Holiday Homes
  53. Home Libraries
  54. Horse Racing
  55. Hospice Patient Care
  56. Hospital Admissions
  57. Hospital Outpatients
  58. Hotel Reservations
  59. HR or Personnel Department
  60. Houses and Rooms
  61. IAA Insurance Party
  62. Indigenous Peoples
  63. Icons of the Western World
  64. Inheritance Models
    1. Charities
    2. City Tourist Guide
    3. CMDB - Configuration Mgt DB
    4. Customers Commercial and Personal
    5. Games Store
    6. Insurance Brokers
    7. Libraries for Lawyers
    8. National Trust (UK)
    9. NewEgg
    10. Photo Catalogs
    11. School Management System
    12. Shrek 2 Movie
    13. Tracking Manufactured Items
    14. Travel & Tourism Worldwide
  65. Insurance Brokers
  66. Insurance for Vehicles
  67. Insurance (Personal)
  68. Intelligent Environments
  69. Interior Design Companies
  70. Internet Music Radio Stations
  71. Inventory Control
    1. Inventory and Equipment Maintenance
    2. Inventory Control (Files in Boxes)
    3. Inventory Control (Manuals)
    4. Inventory Control (Publishing)
    5. Inventory Control (Retail Store)
    6. Inventory Control (Sports Centers)
    7. Inventory Control for a Pharmacy
    8. Inventory of Rental Equipment
    9. Inventory of Servers
    10. Inventory of Tooling Equipment
  72. Investment Banking
  73. Issue Tracking (Software)
  74. Jewellery Stores
  75. Job Scheduling
  76. Judges and Courts
  77. Justice Department
  78. Key Performance Indicators
  79. Kitchen Cabinets
  80. Knowledge Management
  81. Laboratory Management
  82. Land Registry
  83. Landscape Gardening
  84. Language Schools
  85. Law Enforcement
    1. Case Management
    2. Fingerprint Recognition
    3. Forensic Science Labs
    4. Judges and Courts
    5. Justice Department
    6. Lawyers, Cases and Bills
    7. Libraries for Lawyers
    8. Police Information Reports
    9. Prisons and Prisoners
    10. Tracking Evidence
    11. Traffic Cops and Tickets
  86. Lawn Bowling Clubs
  87. Legal Case Management
  88. Libraries
    1. Libraries Basic Model
    2. Libraries and Books
    3. Libraries of Digital Assets
    4. Libraries of Film Tapes
    5. Libraries of Sheet Music
    6. Libraries for Lawyers
    7. Libraries for Teachers
    8. Libraries for UK Schools
    9. My Library (for Amazon Web Svcs)
    10. Virtual Library for MyLifeBits
  89. Licences and Permits
  90. Limousine Services
  91. Loan Management System
  92. Local Govt (UK)
  93. Logistics
  94. Long Term Accommodation
  95. LSC Framework for Excellence
  96. Magazine Subscriptions
  97. Mail System
  98. Maintenance Contracts :-
    1. For Products with no Parts
    2. For Products with Parts (Dezign)
  99. Making a Movie
  100. Manufacturing :-
    1. Aircraft Orders and Parts
    2. Assets Maintenance
    3. Bill of Materials
    4. Construction and Manufacturing
    5. Customer Purchases Data W'house
    6. Paper Manufacturing
    7. Product Catalogs
    8. Tracking Customer Orders
    9. Vehicle Maintenance
    10. Vehicle Parts Manufacture
  101. Maritime Models :-
    1. Freight Forwarders
    2. Harbour Management
    3. Marine Archeology
    4. Maritime Museums
    5. Scuba Diving
    6. Swimming Clubs
    7. US Navy
  102. Marriages
  103. Mashups
  104. Master Data Management
  105. Medical :-
    1. Dietician Practice
    2. Doctor's Practice
    3. Health Center
    4. Health Insurance Claims
    5. Hospice Patient Care
    6. Hospital Admissions
    7. Hospital Outpatients
    8. Medical Laboratories
    9. Mortuaries
    10. Natural Disease Treatments
    11. Nurses Roster
    12. Nursing Home
    13. Patient Care
    14. Pharmacies and Generics
    15. Pharmacies and Prescriptions
    16. Pharmaceutical Supplies
    17. Symptoms and Diseases
  106. Medical Laboratories
  107. Message Board for a Web Site
  108. MetaData Management
  109. Middle East Conflict New
  110. Modelling Agency
  111. Mortuaries
  112. MP3 Music Site
  113. Movie Making
  114. Museums (Simple)
  115. Museums (Complex)
  116. Music Lovers Communities
  117. Music over the Internet
  118. Musicians in Newspapers
  119. Musicians in a Band
  1. My Life New
  2. MyLifeBits Research
  3. My Work
  4. My Life and Work
  5. National Trust (UK)
  6. Native Peoples
  7. Natural Disease Treatments
  8. New Egg Web Site
  9. Newsagents
  10. Newsletters
  11. Not For Profits (NfPs/NPOs)
  12. Nurses Roster
  13. Nursing Home
  14. Offshore Drilling Equipment
  15. Olympic Sports
  16. Online Banking
  17. Opticians
  18. Oracle Data Dictionary
  19. Oracle Database Rpt
  20. Oracle PL/SQL
  21. Orders and Parts
  22. Organisations and People
  23. Organisations and Transactions
  24. Organisations,Members & Meetings
  25. Package Delivery Service
  26. Paintings on Loan
  27. Parking Space Registration
  28. Parties and Products
  29. Partners in a Firm
  30. Patient Care
  31. Payrolls
  32. Performance Monitoring
  33. Permits and Licences
  34. Personalization
  35. Personal Insurance
  36. Pharmacies and Generics
  37. Pharmacies and Prescriptions
  38. Pharmaceutical Supplies
  39. Philip Greenspun's Communities
  40. Phone Bills
  41. Photo Catalogs (e-Commerce)
  42. Piano Tuners
  43. Picture Library
  44. Pizza Deliveries
  45. Plane Spotting
  46. Police Information Reports
  47. Popkin System Architect :-
    1. Data Warehouse
    2. Data Dictionary
    3. Generic Customer Model
    4. Hotel Reservations
    5. National Trust Visitors
  48. Portals
  49. Portals and KPIs
  50. Preserved Railways
  51. Prisons and Prisoners
  52. Products :-
    1. Bill of Materials
    2. Product Catalogs
    3. Product Categories
    4. Product Characteristics
    5. Product Distribution
    6. Products for Hire
    7. Product Hierarchies
    8. Product Servicing
    9. Products and Security
  53. Project Planning
  54. Project Staff
  55. Properties (National Trust)
  56. Properties (Real Estate)
  57. Property Development
  58. Proposals, Projects & Donors
  59. Pub Quiz League
  60. Pubs and Parties
  61. Quantity Surveyors
  62. Questionnaire - Basic
  63. Questionnaire - Complex
  64. Questionnaire - Multiple Choice
  65. Railway Reservations
  66. Ratings and User Reviews
  67. Real Estate Agents
  68. Real Estate Rentals
  69. Real Estate Sales
  70. Real World Series
    1. Generic Real World
    2. Overview of the Real World
    3. Real World of Entertainment
    4. Real World of Insurance
  71. Recipes
  72. Record Label
  73. Recruitment Agencies
  74. Reference Database
  75. Reference Data Manager
  76. Refugees & Asylum Seekers
  77. Removals Companies
  78. Report Generators
  79. Reservations :-
    1. Apartment Rentals
    2. Airline Reservations
    3. Car Hire
    4. Cinema Bookings
    5. Coach Trips
    6. Driving School
    7. Event Reservations
    8. Hairdressers Appointments
    9. Health Centers
    10. Holiday Homes
    11. Hotel Reservations
    12. Limousine Services
    13. Railway Reservations
    14. Restaurant Bookings
    15. Sports Centers
    16. Ticketmaster
    17. Vehicle Rental
  80. Resources Requesters
  81. Restaurant Bookings
  82. Restaurant Delivery Service
  83. Reviews and Ratings
  84. Risk Management (UML)
  85. Sailing Club
  86. Sales Commissions
  87. Salesforce.com
  88. Salesforce CDM Strategy
  89. Salesforce.com Developer Challenge
  90. Sales Promotion Analysis
  91. School Management System
  92. Scientific Research
  93. Search Engine
  94. Search for a Data Model
  95. Search for Musicians in Articles
  96. Search for Items in Newspapers
  97. Service Assessment
  98. Service Request Calls
  99. Shopping Malls
  100. Show Business
    1. Ballet Companies
    2. CD Collection
    3. Circus
    4. Clown Registry
    5. Dance School
    6. Talent Agency
    7. Theater Company
    8. ticketmaster
  101. Shrek2 Movie
  102. Single View of a Customer
  103. Snowflake Design
  104. SOA
  105. Social Anthropology
  106. Social Capitalist Awards
  107. Social Networking Sites
  108. Social Workers Case Mgt
  109. Sperm Banks
  110. Sports Card Collecting
  111. Sports Centers
  112. Staff Movements
  113. Star Design for Teaching Schedule
  114. Star Design for Transaction
  115. Stock Control
    1. Stock Control (Retail Store)
    2. Stock Control (Sports Centers)
  116. Stockmarket Data
  117. Street Cleaning Schedules
  118. Street Traders
  119. Students :-
    1. Behavior Monitoring
    2. Church Sunday Schools
    3. Class Scheduling
    4. Credit Accumulation (Europe)
    5. School Catering Businesses
    6. School Management Systems
    7. Student Accommodation
    8. Student Assessments
    9. Student Assignments
    10. Student Athletes
    11. Student Exams
    12. Student Exams in Saudi
    13. Student Loans
    14. Student Questionnaires
    15. Student Rosters
    16. Student Work Placements
    17. University Course Catalogs
  120. Surveyors and Contacts
  121. Swimming Clubs
  122. Symptoms and Diseases
  123. Talent Agency
  124. Tax Receipts
  125. Taxi Service
  126. Technical PC Support
  127. Telephone Bills
  128. Tenant Contact Tracking
  129. Theater Company
  130. Themes (Vertical Applns)
    1. CRM and Customers
    2. e-Commerce
    3. Education
    4. Entertainment
    5. Health and Fitness
    6. Law Enforcement
    7. Transport and Transport
  131. Ticketmaster
  132. Tracking Customer Orders
  133. Tracking Evidence
  134. Tracking Grants for Research
  135. Tracking Grants for Skills Development
  136. Tracking Manufactured Items
  137. Tracking Share Transactions
  138. Tracking Software Problems
  139. Tracking Tenant Contacts
  140. Traffic Cops and Tickets
  141. Transportation and Shipments
  142. Travel & Tourism Worldwide
  143. Treatments for Natural Diseases
  144. Trouble Tickets
  145. TV Talk Shows
  146. Tutorial on Database Schema
  147. UK e-Govt Standard Data
  148. UML Class Diagrams
  149. UN Global Compact
  150. Uniforms on Loan
  151. Union Grievances
  152. University Course Catalogs
  153. Used Flutes Exchange
  154. User-Defined Hierarchies
  155. User-Extendable Database
  156. User-Extendable DataDictionary
  157. User Portals
  158. User Portals and KPIs
  159. User Profiles
  160. User Reviews and Ratings
  161. Vehicle Insurance
  162. Vehicle Maintenance
  163. Vehicle Mileage Tracking
  164. Vehicle Parts Manufacture
  165. Vehicle Registration Authority
  166. Vehicle Rental
  167. Vets Practice
  168. Video Purchase
  169. Video Rental
  170. Volcanoes (Visio & Dezign)
  171. Warehouse Inventory Management
  172. Waste Management
  173. Web 2.0
  174. Web Site for a Community
  175. Web Site for DBA Site
  176. Web Site Analysis
  177. Web Site Pages
  178. Web Site Registration
  179. Web Site Traffic Analysis
  180. Web Sites for Hobbies and Pastimes
  181. Weddings
  182. Weighbridge Operations
  183. Wine Cellars
  184. Wiring Diagrams
  185. Workflow
  186. Worksheets
  187. World Health Organization STD
  188. World Language Classification
  189. Youth Church
  190. Zip Codes in Mexico
  191. Zoos


A Design Note on Primary Keys
My approach is very simple and always uses a system-generated unique number as a Primary Key, (except for Reference Data).
This is called a surrogate key, but there is a 'gotcha' which can be deadly. It is all too easy to enter the same record twice. Therefore you must always be sure to enforce a unique constraint on the natural key. Luckily this is easy to do in Access which can be a good basis for clarifying your design and constraints.

Why do I do this for free ?
I design these Data Models for free to give something back to the Database community that has provided me with a good (and interesting) living for the past 15 years.

Each Model is usually what I can do in the 20 minutes each day of voluntary work that I allocate from my consulting work.

My intention is to provide a wide range of 'Kick Start' Models that anyone can use as a starting-point, and could extend cleanly and logically, with appropriate reference to the Business Rules.

It is not my intention to provide Models that can be used off-the-shelf to meet the requirements of a large commercial organisation.
After all, that is one of the things I do for a living !!!

None of the Models is the complete and final solution in its area, but any of them can be added to easily and quickly to meet a specific requirement. The logic in each Model is correct and contains the minimum Entities for the area being modelled. It is easy to create a complex Model by combining these Kick-Start Models because they all follow the same design approach and standards.

Generally, I try to make the Data Models and the associated Business Rules consistent, but I don't always define the Rules because that is a very valuable 'exercise for the student'.
I'd be very interested in hearing any
suggestions for improving this facility. Here's a first draft of a page of French Data Models.
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