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There are a number of data modeling tools to transform business requirements into logical data model, and logical data
model to physical data model. From physical data model, these tools can be instructed to generate sql code for creating
database.
Popular Data Modeling Tools:

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Erwin
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Data modeling tools are the only way through which we can create powerful data models. Following are the various
options that we have to know and learn in data modeling tools before start building data models.
Logical Data Model:

How to create entity and add definition, business rule?
How to create domains?
How to create an attribute and add definition, business rule, validation rules like default values and check
constraint?
How to create supertypes, subtypes?
How to create primary keys, unique constraint, foreign key relationships, and recursive relationships?
How to create identifying and non-identifying relationship?
How to assign relationship cardinality?
How to phrase relationship connecting two tables?
How to assign role names?
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Physical Data Model:

How to rename a table?
How to rename a column,validation rules like default and check constraints?
How to assign NULL and NOT NULL to columns?
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How to connect to databases like MS Access, Oracle, Sibase, Terradata etc?
How to generate sql code from data model to run against databases like MS Access, Oracle, Sibase, Terradata etc.?
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How to add database related properties to tables, indexes?
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How many data modelers can concurrently work on the same version of a data model?
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All Fusion Erwin Data Modeler:

All Fusion Erwin Data Modeler commonly known as Erwin, is a powerful and leading data modeling tool from Computer
Associates. Computer Associates delivers several software for enterprise management, storage management solutions,
security solutions, application life cycle management, data management and business intelligence.
Erwin makes database creation very simple by generating the DDL(sql) scripts from a data model by using itsForward
Engineering technique or Erwin can be used to create data models from the existing database by using its Reverse
Engineering technique.
Erwin workplace consists of the following main areas:

Logical: In this view, data model represents business requirements like entities, attributes etc.
Physical: In this view, data model represents physical structures like tables, columns, datatypes etc.
Modelmart: Many users can work with a same data model concurrently.
What can be done with Erwin?

Logical, Physical and dimensional data models can be created.
Data Models can be created from existing systems(rdbms, dbms, files etc.).
Different versions of a data model can be compared.
Data model and database can be compared.
SQl scripts can be generated to create databases from data model.
Reports can be generated in different file formats like .html, .rtf, and .txt.
Data models can be opened and saved in several different file types like .er1, .ert, .bpx, .xml, .ers, .sql, .cmt, .df, .dbf,
and .mdb files.
By using ModelMart, concurrent users can work on the same data model.
In order to create data models in Erwin, you need to have this All Fusion Erwin Data Modeler installed in your system. If
you have installed Modelmart, then more than one user can work on the same model.
How to create a Logical Data Model using CA Erwin Data Modeler Version 9?
In the following section, a simple example with a step by step procedure to create a logical data model with two entities
and their relationship are explained in detail.
Open CA Erwin Data Modeler Version 9 software.

Go to menu file and click new. A new box will be displayed. Click the button logical/physical from type. From the
drop down list box, select oracle as the database and version as 10g/11g. Click OK button. A new workspace is
created. To select notation IDEF1X or IE Go to MODEL/MODEL PROPERTIES/GENERAL TAB to change.
Above the workspace, you can see menus File, Edit, View, Diagram, Model, Actions, Tools, Windows, Help. Below that
you can see the following tool bars.
Standard, Toolbox, Formatting, Layout, Zoom, Display, Mart, Database, Alignment, Drawing, Transformations,
Customize. On the display toolbar, you can see Logical selected by default i.e. you will be working on creation of a
logical data model.
To create an Entity, click the icon Entity from Toolbox Toolbar and drop it on the workplace. By default E/1 will be
displayed as the entity name and type it as Country.
To create an Attribute, Place the cursor on the entity Country and right click it. From the displayed menu, click
attribute properties which will take you to the attribute wizard. You can see a button New. Click New on the wizard
and type attribute name as Country Code. You can see different headers like Parent Domain, Logical Datatype,
Primary Key, Foreign Key, Logical Only.
Select the parent domain as string and by default logical datatype becomes varchar2(20). Change the datatype to
varchar2 (2); Click the check box near the primary key.Similarly create another column Country Name with parent
domain as string and datatype as varchar2 (50). Select NULL OPTION as NOT NULL from the NULL OPTION list
box. THERE ARE DIFFERENT TABS LIKE General, Constraint, Link, Key Groups, Style, Definition, Where Used, UDP,
Notes etc. To create constraints, you can use constraint tab. To create indexes, you can use key groups tab. For
typing attribute definition you can use definition tab. For changing font size, font name, font color, you can use style
tab. For seeing the properties like event, date created, created by, data modified, modified by, you can use Notes
tab. Click ok, and now you will be having 2 attributes Country Code, and Country Name under the entity Country in
the current logical workplace.
Create another entity Bank with two attributes namely Bank Code and Bank Name.
In order to relate these two tables country, bank, a Foreign Key relationship must be created. To create a Foreign
Key relationship, follow these steps.
Click the symbol Non Identifying Relationship from Toolbox Toolbar.
Place the cursor on the entity Country.
Place the cursor on the entity Bank. Now you can see the relationship (a line drawn from Bank to Country)
between Country and Bank. Double click on that relationship line to open Relationships wizard and change the
option from Nulls Allowed to No Nulls since bank should have a country code.
The Logical Data Model created by following the above steps looks similar to the following diagram.
SAVE: To save the file, click save button in the standard tool bar and save it as .CA_Erwin_Data_Modeler_v9_example
and file type will be .erwin.
How to create a Physical Data Model using CA Erwin Data Modeler Version 9?
Change the view from Logical to Physical from the drop down list.
If you want to add some physical properties, you can add it here.
Explanation:
In the logical view: When you right click and view entity properties for entity Country, you can see tabs like volumetrics,
definition, style, icon, where used, UDP, NOTES etc. The information that you fill will explain about entity properties.
In the physical view: when you right click and view table properties for table country, you can see tabs like table options,
general, partitions, supplemental logging, validation, materialized view log, style, icon, synonym comment, object creation
order, where used, UDP, Notes etc.
If you are an expert, then you can fill relevant details in the above mentioned tabs so that it will be useful while creating
scripts. If you are not an expert, you can discuss with DBAs, get relevant information and fill details.
How to generate DDL(sql) scripts to create a database using CA Erwin Data Modeler
Version 9?
Click menu edit. Navigate to selection and click select all. Objects bank and country will be highlighted.
Click the forward engineer schema generation icon in the database tool bar. A new Wizard appears.
There are two boxes. On the left side box, you can several database objects. On the right side box, you can see
different options for each object.
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Database
Do not select anything
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1) Check table under 'create' option
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View
Index
Referential Integrity
1) Check 'create/pk' under 'primary key/pk';

2) Check 'create/fk' under 'foreign key (FK)'
Trigger
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Click 'constraint name'
Click preview. You can see the sql code generated by Erwin data modeler tool.
CREATE TABLE Country ( Country_Code VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
Country_Name VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT XPKCountry PRIMARY KEY (Country_Code) );
CREATE TABLE Bank ( Bank_Code VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
Bank_Name VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL ,
Country_Code VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT XPKBank PRIMARY KEY (Bank_Code),
CONSTRAINT Country_to_Bank FOREIGN KEY (Country_Code) REFERENCES Country (Country_Code) );
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Xcase Overview:
Xcase is a powerful and intuitive data modeling tool. It automates database creation and maintenance, making the
modeling process simple and visual. The tool provides tight support for the leading DBMS and an impressive set of
capabilities.
Using Xcase, data modelers can create data models from scratch or from existing databases using the Reverse
Engineering module. Once the model is complete, Xcase Forward Engineering module generates all the DDL scripts
necessary to create a new database or update an existing one.
Using Xcase, you can:

Create Professional Data Models from scratch.
Reverse Engineer existing database structures.
View and organize the database structure at different levels of depth.
Communicate effectively with clients and colleagues.
Fully control database Metadata within the model and add user defined attributes for each object.
Manage different versions of your model/database using the advanced Version Control module compare a
model to the actual database, to another model or to a previous version of the same model and generate a detailed
report of all discrepancies found.
Synchronize your model with the database using the 2-way synchronization feature. Xcase provides a detailed
report on discrepancies found between the model and the database and allows you to update the model based on the
actual database structure or update the database based on your model.
Automatically generate all the code necessary to create and maintain the database without jeopardizing existing
data.
Validate the data in the database against the business rules defined in the model.
Access and edit the data relationally using automatic parent/child browsers and lookups.
Migrate the database metadata and data from one DBMS to another.
Note: For more information, refer the Xcase data modeling web page.
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1. Open Visio software.
2. On the left hand side, under Choose Drawing Select Type, click the category "Database". Click
the template "Database Model Diagram".
3. Alternate way of opening is to go to "File" menu. Click New and then click "Choose drawing
type". Out of the several options displayed, click "Database Model Diagram".
4. This will take you to a workplace where data model will be created. This workplace has got
different panes. On the left hand side, you can see the different icons for creating entity,
relationship, view etc. The grid is the place where you are going to drag and drop these icons to
create the data model.
5. Below that, in "Database Properties" tab, you can see the categories for creating Tables,
Columns, Primary IDS, Indexes, Triggers, Check, Extended Notes etc. If you don't see the
Database Properties tab then, double click on the table. This will open the Database Properties
window. Drag that window in such a way that it positions itself at the bottom of the grid.
6. To create a Table, click the icon 'Entity' and drop it on the workplace. Under Category, place the
cursor on the category 'Definition'. Change/Type the conceptual name(logical name) and
physical name(table name) as 'COUNTRY'. As per your business requirements, you can enter
metadata in name space, owner, source database and defining type.
7. To create a Column, place the cursor on the category "Columns". Type column name as
"COUNTRY_CODE". Select the data type or type your datatype as VARCHAR(10). Select the option
Primary Key to identify attribute "COUNTRY_CODE" as the primary key. If you want to edit the
column or need to add more properties to the column, place the cursor on the column
'COUNTRY_CODE'. Click edit and you can edit or add more properties like definition, datatype,
collection, extended, check, extended, notes.
8. Follow the same approach to create another column "COUNTRY_NAME". Type datatype as
VARCHAR2(50), check "Required" option and do not select the primary key option. Now you will
be having two columns COUNTRY_CODE, and COUNTRY_NAME under the table "COUNTRY" on
the grid.
9. Create another table "BANK" with two columns namely BANK_CODE and BANK_NAME by
following steps 5 through 7.
10. In order to relate these two tables(COUNTRY & BANK), a Foreign Key relationship must be
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Now, we are going to make changes to the previously created data model. So create another file
LDM_creating_entity_version2. Open the previous data model LDM_creating_entity_version1 and click menu file/save as
LDM_creating_entity_version2.
How to add entity and attributes in ER Studio Data Architect:
Add the following attributes to Employee Entity. Place the cursor in attribute section of Employee Entity, right click edit
entity. Click attributes tab and add the following attributes.
Employee Name with data type as Varchar(50); NOT NULL;
Incentive Indicator with datatype as Char(10); NOT NULL;
Phone Number with datatype as Char(12); NULL;
You can use UP or DOWN arrow keys to align the attributes.
Create another entity Address with Address Identifier as attribute, datatype as Integer and Address identifier as primary
key.
Address ID should be a sequence number.
How to create a sequence number in ERStudio Data Architect:
When you add an attribute, you can see a section Identity Property. Click the check box in Identity column.
Type 1 for seed and 1 for increment. Seed means the starting number of the sequence and increment means how it has to
be incremented.
Create another entity Employee-Address with no attributes. We will explain how to add attributes below.
How to add non-identifying relationship in ER studio data architect?
Department entity to Employee entity:
Many employees can work in one department. One-to-many relationship. Hence we can create this relationship by NonIdentifying Relationship.
Click menu Insert/Relationship/Non-Identifying mandatory:
Click the cursor on Department Entity and then on Employee Entity.
Now you can see the non-identifying relationship between department entity and employee identity.
A new attribute Department Number is added to employee entity.
How to add identifying relationship in ER studio data architect?
Employee entity and Address entity: One employee can stay in many addresses.
One address can contain many employees.
Many to many relationship: Identifying relationship
Create address entity with address id as the primary key.
Click menu Insert/Relationship/Identifying
Click the cursor on employee entity and employee address entity. Again click on address entity and then on employeeaddress entity.
Now you can see the identifying relationship in employee address entity.
Two new attributes employee number, and address identifier are added as primary keys to employee-address entity. Since
two keys are there, it is called as composite primary keys.
How to add self-recursive relationship in ER studio data architect?
To connect relationship between an employee and a manager: There is no attribute which references the employee
number in the employee entity. So we will create a new attribute Manager Number by using self-recursive relationship.
When we want to create an attribute in an entity that references the same primary key attribute, we have to create role
name, because, two attributes cannot have the same name in the same table.
In this example, the parent entity and child entity are same (employee entity).
Click menu Insert/Relationship/Non-Identifying mandatory
Click the cursor on employee entity twice. You can see a new screen. Type role name as manager number.
You can see a new attribute manager number in employee entity.
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Now, we are going to make changes to the previously created data model. So create another file
LDM_creating_entity_version2. Open the previous data model LDM_creating_entity_version1 and click menu file/save as
LDM_creating_entity_version2.
How to add entity and attributes in ER Studio Data Architect:
Add the following attributes to Employee Entity. Place the cursor in attribute section of Employee Entity, right click edit
entity. Click attributes tab and add the following attributes.
Employee Name with data type as Varchar(50); NOT NULL;
Incentive Indicator with datatype as Char(10); NOT NULL;
Phone Number with datatype as Char(12); NULL;
You can use UP or DOWN arrow keys to align the attributes.
Create another entity Address with Address Identifier as attribute, datatype as Integer and Address identifier as primary
key.
Address ID should be a sequence number.
How to create a sequence number in ERStudio Data Architect:
When you add an attribute, you can see a section Identity Property. Click the check box in Identity column.
Type 1 for seed and 1 for increment. Seed means the starting number of the sequence and increment means how it has to
be incremented.
Create another entity Employee-Address with no attributes. We will explain how to add attributes below.
How to add non-identifying relationship in ER studio data architect?
Department entity to Employee entity:
Many employees can work in one department. One-to-many relationship. Hence we can create this relationship by NonIdentifying Relationship.
Click menu Insert/Relationship/Non-Identifying mandatory:
Click the cursor on Department Entity and then on Employee Entity.
Now you can see the non-identifying relationship between department entity and employee identity.
A new attribute Department Number is added to employee entity.
How to add identifying relationship in ER studio data architect?
Employee entity and Address entity: One employee can stay in many addresses.
One address can contain many employees.
Many to many relationship: Identifying relationship
Create address entity with address id as the primary key.
Click menu Insert/Relationship/Identifying
Click the cursor on employee entity and employee address entity. Again click on address entity and then on employeeaddress entity.
Now you can see the identifying relationship in employee address entity.
Two new attributes employee number, and address identifier are added as primary keys to employee-address entity. Since
two keys are there, it is called as composite primary keys.
How to add self-recursive relationship in ER studio data architect?
To connect relationship between an employee and a manager: There is no attribute which references the employee
number in the employee entity. So we will create a new attribute Manager Number by using self-recursive relationship.
When we want to create an attribute in an entity that references the same primary key attribute, we have to create role
name, because, two attributes cannot have the same name in the same table.
In this example, the parent entity and child entity are same (employee entity).
Click menu Insert/Relationship/Non-Identifying mandatory
Click the cursor on employee entity twice. You can see a new screen. Type role name as manager number.
You can see a new attribute manager number in employee entity.
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Create a .csv file named Naming_Standards.csv and store the following information in that csv file. The reason for
creating this file is to avoid errors and typos in our naming conventions and data modeling naming convention standards
can also be followed. We have eliminated VOWELS in the actual word so that physical object names will not exceed the
actual length provided by the database. Later this file will be created in .nst format (embarcaderos naming standards
format) and has to be attached to the physical data model that we will create in the next section. This file (.nst) can be
attached to all data models created across the enterprise.
Note: We are not providing naming standards for logical data model.
Step1: Creating .csv file and storing it as Naming_Standards.csv
Open your Microsoft Excel and type the following data. Then store it in .nsv format.
DEPARTMENT
DPRTMNT
NUMBER
NMBR
NAME
NM
ADDRESS
ADDRSS
IDENTIFIER
IDNTFR
EMPLOYEE
EMPLY
MANAGER
MNGR
SALARY
SLRY
DATE
DT
OF
OF
JOINING
JNNG
PHONE
PHN
NUMBER
NMBR
INCENTIVE
INCNTV
INDICATOR
INDCTR
Step2: Creating .nst file and storing it as Enterprise_Naming_Standards.nst
Open existing logical data model 02_LDM_creating_entity_version2

Click menu Tools/Naming Standards Template Editor.
A new screen appears.
On top of the screen, there are four different tabs. Name, Logical, Physical, and Mapping.
Under name tab: type the file name as enterprise_naming_standards.
Under Logical tab, you can change max length of entity, attribute, view, key, relationship. Select case as upper for entity.
Under physical tab, you can change you can change max length of entity, attribute, view, key, relationship. You have to
change the length as per the target database standards. Select case as upper for table.
Under mapping tab, click import. Select the file naming_standards.csv.
In mapping tab, below the screen there are three tabs abbreviations, order, and general. Click general tab.
Since we will be placing underscore between each word of the column, type _ in physical word separation under heading
delimiter options.
Click save. Save the file as enterprise_naming_standards.nst
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1: Change the view from Logical to Physical from the drop down list.
2: Click Database from main menu and then click Choose Database from the sub menu. Then select your target
database server where the database has to be created. Click ok.
3: Place the cursor on the table Country and right click it. From the displayed menu, click columns which will take you to
the column wizard. Click the Database Tab, which is next to General Tab and assign datatypes VARCHAR2(10),
VARCHAR2(50) for columns COUNTRY_CODE and COUNTRY_NAME respectively. Change the default NULL to NOT NULL for
the column COUNTRY_NAME. Similarly, repeat the above step for the BANK table. Once you have done all of these, you can
see the physical version of the logical data model in the current workplace.
The Physical Data Model created by following the above steps looks similar to the following diagram.
How to generate DDL(sql) scripts to create a database?

1: Select the view as <b>Physical</b> from the drop down list.
2: Click Tools from main menu and then click Forward Engineer/Schema Generation from the sub menu which will take
you to the Schema Generation Wizard. Select the appropriate properties that satisfies your database requirements like
schema, table, primary key etc. Click preview to see your scripts. Either you can click to generate the table in a database or
you can store the scripts and run against the database later.
The DDL(sql) scripts generated by Erwin by following the above steps looks similar to the following script.
CREATE TABLE Country(Country_Code VARCHAR2(10) NOT NULL,
Country_Name VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_Country PRIMARY KEY (Country_Code));
CREATE TABLE Bank(Bank_Code VARCHAR2(10) NOT NULL,
Bank_Name VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL, Country_Code VARCHAR2(10) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_Bank PRIMARY KEY(Bank_Code) );ALTER TABLE Bank ADD( CONSTRAINT FK_Bank
FOREIGN KEY (Country_Code) REFERENCES Country );
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us soon to check back. To know more about Erwin, contact its official website www.ca.com.
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