The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...

"The consensus of customers is that purchasing the LDM saves them six to nine months of logical and physical model development time." A logical data model captures how ... meter reading and meter ...

For example, when building an account management system for a ... choices and decisions long before the physical model should be considered. Logical models are based on functional dependencies between ...

Throughout my career as a practitioner and teacher of cloud architecture and general enterprise architecture, I’ve focused on the distinction between logical and physical architectures.

Figure 1: Centralized model for data & analytics management ... needed is a logical way of defining data relationships and business logic that’s separate and distinct from the physical ...