Data modelling techniques fall into two categories namely the entity relationship (ER) model and the Unified modelling language (UML). We designed our Evans cycle logical database by employing the ...

* Originally, data models were in terms of “entity types”, where an entity type was the definition of a class of things of significance to a business. At that time, an “entity” was an occurrence of ...

Figure 1 – Creating a new Entity Data Model. Figure 2 – Choose Model Contents Step. Figure 3 – Choose Your Data Connection. Figure 4 – Choose Your Database Objects. Modifying the ADO.NET Entity Data ...

Database First. You can use the Database First approach if the database is already designed and is ready. In this approach, the Entity Data Model (EDM) is created from the underlying database.

Entity Framework (EF) is a popular object-relational mapping (ORM) framework that lets you work with data using .NET objects. EF can create and update your database schema based on your model ...

This article considers the simplification of entity-relationship diagrams by the use of meta-entities. Indexes to measure the effectiveness of simplification are suggested and described in the ...

A database model that describes the attributes of entities and the relationships among them. An entity is a file (table). Today, ER models are often created graphically, and software converts the ...

Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...