UML for Database Design

The Approach

Involving the Database Team

Using the UML to capture business requirements lends a tremendous benefit to everyone on the database team, including the data analyst, database administrator, data modeler, and any others who work directly or indirectly with the database.

By using the UML as a common language among the analysis, development, and database teams and working together to understand the requirements and create the use case models of the business, you can best learn how the business works and what type of information needs to be captured. Data is the most im portant artifact of the majority of organizations that exist today. It includes most financial, customer, employee, and product information along with a variety of other ...