Question about the database schema

There were mention in the video tutorial that some part of the ofbiz database schema was somewhat different than that described in the "The Data Model Resource Book" by Len Silverston.

Could someone list the aspects of the schema that have changed.  If possible, why?

[Jacques Le Roux]

IMHO, there are too much to be listed, and moreover there are some new every week...

Maybe someone have a better idea/tool (OmniGraffle ? I saw that David commited some related stuffes recently, notably the last :
r631869 and ?) ? But even with a good tool it's still not an easy task, and as I said, the target is moving ...

Jacques

From: "Yin T" <[hidden email]>

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> There were mention in the video tutorial that some part of the ofbiz database
> schema was somewhat different than that described in the "The Data Model
> Resource Book" by Len Silverston.
>
> Could someone list the aspects of the schema that have changed.  If
> possible, why?
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[David E Jones]

On Mar 1, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Yin T wrote:

>
> There were mention in the video tutorial that some part of the ofbiz  
> database
> schema was somewhat different than that described in the "The Data  
> Model
> Resource Book" by Len Silverston.
>
> Could someone list the aspects of the schema that have changed.  If
> possible, why?

This question assumes some things that aren't true, most importantly:

"The Data Model Resource Book represents a database schema."

Those books do NOT define a database schema. Instead they define a  
series of business-oriented data model concepts. The point of reading  
those books is to understand those concepts which are the basic ideas  
behind the OFBiz data model.

So no, I don't think it would be possible to answer your question and  
it requests comparing two things that are different. As for the  
concepts in the books versus the concepts in OFBiz, there are no  
significant changes there. There are however many concepts in the  
OFBiz data model that are not covered in the books, and for book 2  
(the industry-specific one) there are still concepts that are not yet  
in the OFBiz data model.

-David