UML for Database Design

Data Modeling Today

There are many tools and notations that address data modeling, but generally they are very focused on the implementation of the database. These tools and notations concentrate on logical and physical database modeling, usually ignoring other aspects of the business and its requirements. If you want to model and understand the business processes, requirements, and rules, you need additional tools and notations. If you want to understand the applications and how they relate to the database, once again you must move to other resources. This makes communication, reuse, and interoperability quite difficult, if not impossible.

There have been many methodologies, tools, and notations that championed different ways to best model, ...