Hi Rodrigo, ... The current tool doesn't support this constraint although previous flavors of ORM did. For now, you'll have to use a textual constraint to...
Scot A. Becker
scot@...
Dec 1, 2002 4:49 pm
1332
This reminds me of another question about handling ranges. If given entities Employee and Salary Grade, these facts apply... Salary Grade has Upper Bound and...
Hello, I am a final year student at LONDON Metropolitan university. Part of my final year project requires a comparison report on the two CASE tool packages...
One benefit of using ORM for conceptual modeling is that "elementary facts" provide a good basis for stating much of what is known about the "objects" that ...
John Hanna
j.hanna@...
Dec 12, 2002 4:03 pm
1336
There are both algorithmic and manual ways of marking "important" objects. Unfortunately, the current software does not support either approach. ... From:...
Lance Delano
lanced@...
Dec 12, 2002 4:13 pm
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John, This is a common point we have made fro some time and by critics of ORM. So, do not feel alone. One way that seems to work is to create a model page or...
The "whole" that you see, depends on your perspective. A business view of an ORM model is different from a relational view of the same model. Object importance...
John Miller
jMiller@...
Dec 13, 2002 4:17 pm
1339
Lance, don't be so hard on yourself and the tool. It is obviously important to differentiate the level of importance of objects in an ORM diagram. I tell my...
geverest@...
Dec 16, 2002 5:25 am
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Gordon, Lance, John We often use different pages to organize the presentation. Some pages have all the minor facts connected to a specific major object or two....
All, I forgot another option. You can create more than one model. You can share object between models (external object type). Then put all sub-models into the...
I'm in the process of creating my first data model using ORM and have some general questions regarding the use of subtypes. The UoD: A chain of bicycle stores...
Hi Ken Here are some suggestions. 1. Yes, it's OK to use subtypes here, assuming you can define them in terms of existing fact types, e.g. Category (belongs to...
Kenneth, You can use subtypes. This is a rather static structure and may not be to your liking. Yes, each subtype must have one associated fact - if a subtype...
Terry and Patrick, Thank you both for your prompt and informative replies to my questions. I greatly appreciate your help! While you've confirmed some of my...
Patrick - Please post the flexible model here. I would like to see it to. Thanks. Martin Gottlieb Schering Plough-Research Institute ... From: kennethcoakley...
Gottlieb, Martin
martin.gottlieb@...
Jan 3, 2003 8:36 pm
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Hi, I am new to ORM, and I am currently reading Terry Halpin's excelent book on the subject and looking forward to apply it on my future projects. I am having...
Hi Marcelo Thanks for your kind words about my book. The answers to the odd numbered exercises are on the Companion site for the book, accessible by two cilcks...
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WOW is ORM really neat!!!! Is this message from you, Pat.... Bless my soul.... Never knew you were that way..... Mike G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ... ...
Michael M. Gorman
mmgorman@...
Jan 14, 2003 12:45 am
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I guess we have to go back to a moderated form. Pat Patrick Hallock InConcept Partner path@... Journal of Conceptual Modeling www.inconcept.com/jcm ...
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Hi All, I've used ORM to derive a programme logical data model (LDM) for a client. So I've now got a ORM conceptual data model (CDM) and an LDM as an entity ...
Chris Bruce
chris@...
Jan 23, 2003 2:35 pm
1354
Subject: [JCM] Reuse of ORM Models ... given ... The answer is all over the board. We prefer to keep the ORM model and make all future changes in ORM and...
Patrick, You are so right about the answer to the first question being all over the board. I've generally found as a rule of thumb that the ORM helps us...
Hi Patrick, Thanks very much indeed for your comments. It's helped me get my thoughts in order on the strategy for the various data models (conceptual and ...
Chris Bruce
chris@...
Jan 29, 2003 2:56 pm
1357
Hope someone here can point me in the right direction. I just loaded up Visio 2002 Enterprise Edition specifically because I wanted the latest version of Visio...
Terry, Yes it sill exists, but not where you are looking. It is part of Visio Studio .NET Enterprise Architecture Edition Only. It is under the database...
Just to clarify, VisioModeler and Visio for Enterrpise Architects are two different products. VisioModeler is basically InfoModeler, and is a discontinued ...
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