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3. The Language of Data Modeling

Louis Davidson1  
(1)
Antioch, TN, USA
 

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 ...

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