UML for Database Design

The Workflow

The use of modeling to design databases far exceeds the use of modeling for applications and is generally done within most organizations with which we have worked and visited. The issue is that modeling a database is generally just that—modeling the database tables, columns, and relationships but not the entire database design. In this book, we look at many other parts of database design that can be modeled and how using the UML helps to model the entire database design. One part of database design that has not been covered very well in the past by the UML is the actual modeling of the database. Designers have primarily focused on using the UML for object-oriented application design and not for database design. With the use of the ...