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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. Ballet Companies (Casting Productions)
  26. Ballet Companies (Org and People)
  27. '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
  28. Bank and Branches
  29. Banking (Online) New
  30. Bankrupts
  31. Baseball Umpire Scheduling New
  32. Basel II Accord
  33. BBC (UK)
  34. Behavior Monitoring
  35. Best Practice
  36. Bidders and Buyers
  37. Bill of Materials
  38. Blogs
  39. BMEWS
  40. Boating Marinas
  41. Bookstore
  42. Bookstore and Warehouses
  43. Books and Libraries
  44. Botanical Gardens
  45. Boutiques
  46. Business 2 Business e-Commerce
  47. Business 2 Consumer e-Commerce
  48. Business Directories
  49. Call Centers
  50. Canal Trips
  51. Car Dealership
  52. Car Hire
  53. Car Park Security
  54. Car Parking Enforcement
  55. Car Parts Suppliers
  56. Carphone Warehouse
  57. Car Sales
  58. Car Service Center
  59. Case Management (Lawyers)
  60. Case Management (Social Workers)
  61. Casinos
  62. Catalogs of Products
  63. Catering Businesses for Schools
  64. Catering Services
  65. Catteries
  66. CD Collection
  67. Cemetaries
  68. Census Results
  69. Charities
  70. Chess Tournaments
  71. Children in Institutions (UNICEF)
  72. Children's Aid Rcds Mgt
  73. Childrens Common Assessment Framework
  74. Children's National Database
  75. Children's Playgroup
  76. Church Members (Visio)
  77. Church Praise Teams
  78. Church Sunday Schools
  79. Cinema Bookings
  80. Circus
  81. Cirque du Soleil
  82. Citizens and Services
  83. City Councils
  84. City Hall Certificate Registration
  85. City Licences
  86. City Tourist Guide
  87. Click Stream Analysis
  88. Clients and Consultants
  89. Clients and Fees
  90. Clients and Locations
  91. Clinical Trials
  92. Clown Registry
  93. Club Members
  94. Coach Trips
  95. Commercial Web Sites ...
    1. Avon Cosmetics
    2. Cirque du Soleil
    3. Dog Whisperer
    4. eBay Deals
    5. MyLifeBits Research
    6. SalesForce
    7. Shrek 2 Movie
    8. Ticketmaster
  96. Coding 4 Fun Projects
  97. Communities ...
    1. FAQs and Newsletters
    2. Personalization
    3. Philip Greenspun
    4. Publish/Subscribe & KPI Portal
    5. User Registration
  98. Complaints and Feedback
  99. Competition Results
  100. Conference Centers
  101. Construction and Manufacturing
  102. Construction Jobs Bidding
  103. Consultants and Clients
  104. Consultant Search Web Site
  105. Contacts and Products
  106. Contact Management
  107. Contract Management
  108. Corporate Intranet
  109. Cosmetics Home Sales
  110. Course Catalogs
  111. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
  112. Credit Accumulation (Europe)
  113. Crisis Call Centers
  114. CRM and Personalization
  115. CRM - Microsoft's Data Model
  116. CSR Framework
  117. CVs and Job Histories (Visio)
  118. Dance School
  119. Data Architecture
  120. Data Dictionary
  121. Data Mashups
  122. 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)
  123. Databases for Life
  124. Dating Sites
  125. Day Care Centers
  126. Debt Collection
  127. Department Store
  128. Dietician's Consulting Practice
  129. Dictionaries for Foreign Languages
  130. Digital Challenge (UK)
  131. Diseases and Symptoms
  132. Doctor's Practice
  133. Document Management
  134. Document Management (Specific)
  135. Document Publication
  136. Document Workflow
  137. Dog Kennels
  138. Dog Whisperer
  139. Domestic Violence Centers
  140. Driving School
  141. 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 Loans
    9. Student Rosters
    10. Student Work Placements
  142. eBay Deals
  143. e-Commerce
    1. Games Web Site
    2. Orders & Shipments
    3. Photo Catalogs
  144. e-Government
    1. UK e-Govt Standard Data
  145. Elephant Sanctuaries
  146. Emergency Services
  147. Employees Leave Records
  148. Employees working at Home
  149. Employment Agencies
  150. Endangered Species
  151. Enteprise Data Mashups
  152. Enterprise Information Repository
    1. Data Migration Mapping
    2. Generation of Entities
    3. Glossary of Business terms
    4. Glossary with Queries

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