Database Modeling With Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architects

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Terry Halpin is a professor at Northface University. He has led database research teams at several companies including Visio Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, where he worked on the conceptual and logical database modeling technology in Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architects. His publications include over 100 technical papers and five books. 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. Klappentext 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(r) 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 onlin Zusammenfassung Suitable 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 book provides an introduction to data modeling! and includes practical advice on managing database projects. ...

List of contents

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

12.11 Driver, Document, and Modeling Options

13 Editing Logical Models: Advanced Aspects

13.1 Copying Model Elements

13.2 Cloning Model Elements

13.3 Database Properties: Definition and Notes

13.4 Check Clauses

13.5 Indexes

13.6 Triggers

13.7 Stored Procedures

13.8 Raw DDL

13.9 User Defined Functions

13.10 User Defined Types

13.11 Extended Properties

13.12 The Object-Relational Stencil

14 Reverse Engineering Physical Schemas to Logical Models

14.1 Using the Reverse Engineer Wizard

14.2 Reviewing the Result

14.3 Handling Errors and Warnings

14.4 Other Reverse Engineering Options

15 Logical Database Model Reports

15.1 New Report Wizard

15.2 Statistical Report

15.3 Table Report

15.4 Data Types Report

Part 4 Managing Database Projects

16 Change Propagation and Round-Trip Engineering

16.1 Overview of Change Propagation

16.2 Mapping ORM Changes to Logical Models

16.3 Migrating Logical Model Changes to ORM Models

16.4 Updating Physical Schemas with Logical Model Changes

16.5 Refreshing Logical Models with Physical Schema Changes

16.6 Three-Way Synchronization

16.7 Code Synchronization and Transfer

16.8 Data Migration

16.9 DDL Script vs. Automated Update

17 Other Features and Best Practices

17.1 Model Reviews and Presentations

17.2 Librarianship

17.3 Distributing Your Database Models

Glossary and ORM Notation

Further Resources

Index

Product details

• Authors: Ken Evans, Ken (Independent Consultant Evans, Pat Hallock, Pat (InConcept Hallock, Terry Halpin, Terry (Neumont University Halpin, Terry Evans Halpin, Terry Hallock Halpin, Bill (Independent Consultant Maclean
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2003
• EAN: 9781558609198
• ISBN: 978-1-55860-919-8
• No. of pages: 425
• Series: Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data; The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software