A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
In this chapter, I will introduce the basic process and concepts of data modeling, in which a representation of a database will be produced that shows the objects involved in the database design and how they interrelate. It is really a description of the exterior and interior parts of the database, with a graphical representation being a communication vehicle of the most important parts of the model (the graphical part of ...