When a Common Data Model folder is created, the manifest contains only references to resolved entity definitions. As a rule, when defining a data model it is best to create logical entity definitions ...

Following on from my last post on attaching manually-created Common Data Model folders in Power BI dataflows, I was asked whether defining relationships between entities in the model.json file of the ...

There are three approaches to model your entities in Entity Framework: Code First, Model First, and Database first. This article discusses all these three approaches and their pros and cons ...

a view is a read only virtual or logical concept associated with a model entity, composed of view properties. Each view property is defined by an expression computed on the associated entity. Changing ...

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 ...

An example of a taxonomy, represented as a Barker/SSADM data model, is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Taxonomy Here each box represents an entity class (simply “class” in the ontology world), while a ...

When it first shipped, the Entity Framework supplied two development approaches out of the box: the Database First approach and the Model First approach. In the Database First approach, you started ...