Microsoft has made a promised public preview of its Common Data Model (CDM) entity database available to testers. CDM is at the heart of the coming Microsoft Dynamics 365 bundle.

Data Modeling for the Modern WorldA new world of self-service BI brings with it its own issue of data chaos. When everyone is looking at the data their own way, people find different answers to the ...

The logical model is built on sets of data. For a more in-depth explanation of the ER model, visit the ITS Database Services Web site or the Mapping an ER Model to the Relational Model Web site (a ...

The most popular database model format is relational, which stores data in fixed-format records and organizes it into tables with rows and columns. The most basic data model has two components ...

ER/Studio is an end-to-end data modeling and physical database design tool by IDERA, Inc. It provides tools to construct data models for existing databases or new database designs from scratch.

Recently, vendors have been offering a single, all-encompassing CMDB to hold configuration data that’s accessible by all applications that need the data. But an all-encompassing database isn’t ...

Data modeling just gets squeezed into the long list of conventional database management tasks that are well-known DBA responsibilities. Perhaps, this practice is more commonplace today because of the ...

Relational data modeling is fine as long as data is being stored in a relational database, but otherwise it has no particular use. And XML cannot credibly be called a modeling language.

Model & Database Comparison: This tool automates and compares bidirectional synchronization of models, scripts and databases. It then displays differences, if any.