Database Modeling with Microsoft® Visio for Enterprise Architects
Published on 11. September 2003
425 pages
978-0-08-049103-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book is for database designers and database administrators using Visio, which is the database component of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET for Enterprise Architects suite, also included in MSDN subscriptions. This is the only guide to this product that tells DBAs how to get their job done. Although primarily focused on tool features, the book also provides an introduction to data modeling, and includes practical advice on managing database projects. The principal author was the program manager of VEA's database modeling solutions.·Explains how to model databases with Microsoft® Visio for Enterprise Architects (VEA), focusing on tool features.·Provides a platform-independent introduction to data modeling using both Object Role Modeling (ORM) and Entity Relationship Modeling (ERM), and includes practical advice on managing database projects.·Additional ORM models, course notes, and add-ins available online.
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Terry Halpin | Ken Evans | Pat Hallock
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Dr. Terry Halpin, is a Principal Scientist at LogicBlox, headquartered in Atlanta, USA, and a Professor at INTI International University, Malaysia. After many years in academia, he worked on data modeling technology at Asymetrix Corporation, InfoModelers Inc., Visio Corporation, and Microsoft Corporation, before returning to academia as Distinguished Professor at Neumont University (Utah, USA), and then once again returning to industry at LogicBlox and also taking a professorship at INTI. His research focuses on conceptual modeling and conceptual query technology. Dr. Halpin is the recipient of the DAMA International Academic Achievement Award and the IFIP Outstanding Service Award. He is a member of IFIP WG 8.1 (Design and Evaluation of Information Systems), is an editor or reviewer for several academic journals and international program committees, has co-chaired several international workshops on modeling, and has presented at dozens of international conferences in both industry and academia. For many years, his research has focused on conceptual modeling and conceptual query technology for information systems, using a business rules approach. His doctoral thesis formalized Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM), and his publications include over 160 technical papers, and six books, including Information Modeling and Relational Databases, Second Edition, Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann.Ken Evans has taught and applied ORM in English and French for 10 years. His know-how in data and process modeling and complex systems management comes from over 30 years in industry, including international jobs with IBM, EDS, Honeywell Controls, and Plessy and clients among the Fortune 500.Patrick Hallock, M.S., is the founder of InConcept, a consulting firm, and teaches object modeling throughout the United States. He has been in the industry for 30 years, focusing on database design, with an emphasis on ORM.Bill MacLean, CPA, is an independent consultant and teacher who has worked with relational databases for over 15 years, and consulted in database design for the last 9. He believes that the purpose of a data model is to turn business requirements into buildable specifications.
Content
Foreword Preface Part 1 Overview of Database Modeling and the Database Modeling Tool 1 Introduction 1.1 Why Read This Book? 1.2 What Can You Do with Visio for Enterprise Architects? 1.3 What Can You Do with the Database Modeling Solution? 1.4 How Can You Best Use This Book? 1.5 Format Conventions 2 Database Modeling 2.1 Four Information Levels 2.2 Designing Databases at the Logical level 2.3 Designing Databases at the Conceptual Level 2.4 The Database Life Cycle 3 Getting Started 3.1 Product Editions and Versions 3.2 Installation 3.3 The Visio Interface 3.4 Using Help 3.5 Pagination and Layers 3.6 Simple Examples of Forward Engineering Part 2 The Conceptual Modeling Solution (ORM) 4 Object Types, Predicates, and Basic Constraints 4.1 Object Types 4.2 Fact Types 4.3 Adding Basic Constraints in the Fact Editor 4.4 Populating Fact Types with Examples 4.5 Saving a Model 4.6 Verbalization and Hyphenation 4.7 Objectifying an Association (Nesting) 4.8 Model Error Checks 4.9 Derived Fact Types 4.10 Data Types 5 ORM Constraints 5.1 Value Constraints 5.2 Internal and External Uniqueness Constraints 5.3 Simple and Disjunctive Mandatory Constraints 5.4 Constraint Editing and Deletion 5.5 Set-Comparison Constraints 5.6 Subtyping 5.7 Frequency Constraints 5.8 Ring Constraints 5.9 Indexes 5.10 Constraint Layers 6 Configuring, Manipulating, and Reusing ORM Models 6.1 Configuring ORM Preferences 6.2 Showing Relationships for Object Types 6.3 Redisplaying Model Elements 6.4 Cloning Model Elements 6.5 Cutting and Pasting Model Elements 6.6 Referencing Model Elements 7 Mapping ORM Models to Logical Database Models 7.1 Forward Engineering ORM Source Models 7.2 Refining the Logical Model 7.3 Migrating Changes back to ORM Source Models 7.4 Controlling Logical Name Generation 7.5 Constraint Code 7.6 Subtype Mapping 8 Reverse Engineering and Importing to ORM 8.1 Reverse Engineering to ORM 8.2 Displaying the ORM Model Graphically 8.3 Refining the ORM Schema 8.4 Importing VisioModeler and ERX Files 9 Conceptual Model Reports 9.1 Conceptual Model Reports-Overview 9.2 Object Type Reports 9.3 Constraint Type Reports 9.4 Fact Type Reports 9.5 Supertype Reports 9.6 Copying Diagrams and Text Part 3 The Logical Modeling Solution (ER and Relational) 10 Creating a Basic Logical Database Model 10.1 The Database Model Diagram Solution 10.2 Notation Options 10.3 Creating a Database Model Diagram 10.4 Adding Attributes to an Entity 10.5 Adding Basic Constraints 10.6 Basic Model Housekeeping 10.7 Projects and ER Source Models 11 Generating a Physical Database Schema 11.1 Physical Schemas and Database Drivers 11.2 Creating a Basic DDL Script 11.3 Database Driver Options 11.4 Generating Schemas via an ODBC Connection 11.5 The ODBC Driver Setup Pane 12 Editing Logical Models: Intermediate Aspects 12.1 The Database Properties Dialog 12.2 Table Properties 12.3 Column Properties 12.4 Foreign Key Relationships 12.5 Category Relationships 12.6 Show Related Tables 12.7 Views 12.8 Pagination 12.9 Verbalization 12.10 Model Error Check 12.
