Usage-Driven Database Design: From Logical Data Modeling through Physical Schema Definition

© George Tillmann 2017

George Tillmann, Usage-Driven Database Design, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2722-0_18

Logical Data Modeling Definitions

George Tillmann¹ 

(1)Ship Bottom, New Jersey, USA

Software tools for data modeling, database design, and documentation, as well as corporate data dictionaries and the database management system, will all have their own documentation standards. This appendix gives examples of the minimum information about data that needs to be available for database designers, DBAs, database maintenance staff, and application designers and programmers.

Entity

• Entity name

• Entity description

• Entity type (proper, associative, attributive, S-type)

• Name of supertype (if any)

• Name of subtypes (if any)

• Synonyms or aliases (other names for this object) ...