The requirements for a logical and physical database vary by size and design parameters. A logical database must be able to access and identify all files within the storage system to operate correctly ...

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 ...

Forward engineering is the process of transforming higher level models to lower level models. Figure 7-1 displays an overview of this process, starting at the conceptual level (ORM), mapping to the ...

Learning how to predict future events from patterns of past events is a critical challenge in the field of artificial intelligence. As machine learning pioneer Yann LeCun writes, “prediction is the ...

This book looks at information modeling approaches, including object-role modeling (ORM), entity-relationship (ER) modeling, and the unified modeling language (UML). Terry Halpin and Tony Morgan show ...

Databases are all about the data, but to application architects and developers, the way in which the database is structured is equally important. They must create a data model to structure data within ...