chapter 7Data and Process Modeling
As you saw in Chapter 5, data and process modeling are major undertakings that are part of the logical design stage of an application system development project. You have seen the rudiments of data modeling when you used entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) in preceding chapters. In this chapter, we will look at ERDs and data modeling in more detail. Process modeling, on the other hand, is less important to a database designer because application processes are designed by application designers and seldom directly involve the database designer. However, because the database designer must work closely with the application designer in gathering data requirements and in supplying a database design that will support ...
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