What are business rules and business rules engines? -- Why build a business rules engine? -- Data modeling and database design -- Who defines business rules and when do they do it? -- The atomicity of business rules -- The black box problem -- The components of a business rules engine -- Populating table data in the repository -- Populating column data in the repository -- Populating relationship and subtype data in the repository -- Populating reference data in the repository -- Defining business processes and related information -- Extending the database -- Managing the database -- Implementing a simple business rule -- More edit validation rules, rule components, and rule versions -- Rule types for checking referential integrity -- Working with batch processes : setting indicators and reference data code values -- Implementing rule types using relationships and subtypes -- Rules with subtypes and business metadata -- Debugging in business rules engines -- Managing the business rules engine.