One of the most important steps in desiging a database is establishing the data model. Part one of a two-part article describes how to create a logical model.

In the simplest terms, a logical data model is a visual representation of the business rules and requirements covering the universe-of-discourse for a given solution or enterprise, along with some ...

Logical Schema A logical data model or logical schema is a representation of the abstract structure of the information domain that defines all the logical constraints applied to the data stored. A ...

A logical data model captures how a company conducts its business and how the data are organized for decision-making and analysis. The Utilities LDM also highlights data integrity problems, provides ...

Occasionally one may hear that a data model is 'over-normalized,' but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to ...

Teradata Corporation, a company focused on big data analytics, data warehousing and integrated marketing management, announced the general availability of a new Medicaid Logical Data Model (MC-LDM ...

MISMO, the standards development body for the mortgage industry released its logical data model as the next generation of the MISMO data exchange, according to a press release.

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, has announced the launch of the Teradata Communications Logical Data Model (LDM) Version 5.0. NCR is represented in South Africa by National Data Systems ...