The Tricky Part of Doing Tricky Things in your Data Model
presented by Karen Lopez

We’ve mastered the basics of basic data model and database design patterns, but what happens when you or a teammate wants to use THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK to improve on your design? Have you just discovered a brilliant new trick that no one else has ever thought of? Or will your new design cost you more, take on more risk and cause all kinds of pain for both IT and your business users? 

We’ll demo tricks that we’ve seen in our database design reviews and show you how they work and talk about the trade-offs for using them. You’ learn about:

• Building a database engine inside your database
• Implementing Hierarchies
• Dealing with data structures that don’t do as well in RDBMSs
• Generating code out of the database
• Optimizing the developer versus the data or the app
• Using design patterns that don’t reflect modern architectures and tools, …and a lot more.

Bring your own data modeling / database design tricks and we’ll go over the Cost, Benefits, and Risks of each.

About Karen

Karen is a senior project manager with an extensive background in development processes and information management. She specializes in taking practical approaches to systems development. She has 20+ years of public speaking (keynotes, speeches and demonstrations). She wants attendees to have fun, gain insights and take away inspiration for working with new technologies and methods.

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