Idera offers free webinar on data modeling in the cloud
Idera offers free webinar on data modeling in the cloud Data modeling is the process of documenting a complex software system design as an easily understood diagram, using text and symbols to represent the way data needs to flow. The diagram can be used as a blueprint for the construction of new software or for re-engineering a legacy application. Traditionally, data models have been built during the analysis and design phases of a project to ensure that the requirements for a new application are fully understood. A data model can be thought of as a flowchart that illustrates the relationships between data. Although capturing all the possible relationships in a data model can be very time-intensive, it's an important step that shouldn't be rushed. Well-documented conceptual, logical and physical data models allow stake-holders to identify errors and…