One of the most important steps in desiging a database is establishing the data model. Part one of a two-part article describes how to create a logical model.

Data Modeling: An Integrated View. Data modeling is an essential technology for understanding relationships between data sets. The integrated view of conceptual, logical, and physical data models ...

However, within the logical data model the goal is to express the business rules and logic. Therefore, abstractions do not have to be avoided, but they should be used surgically. When an area of the ...

The first step in transforming a logical data model into a physical model is to perform a simple translation from logical terms to physical objects. Of course, this simple transformation will not ...

MISMO, the standards development body for the mortgage industry released its logical data model as the next generation of the MISMO data exchange, according to a press release.The new model has the ...