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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

that the common data modeling ingredient in this alphabet soup is not ER, RDBMS, or even ORM–for better or worse, it’s XML. In these modeling domains, as in most, many-to-many relationships are a fact ...

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 ...