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Database Modeling in UML

ERWin is a long term standard database modeling tool for building up ERD. Usually data architect spends lots of time on handling the relationships among entities, then utilizes forward engineering function to generate database schema.

During database modeling practices, an outstanding issue has been noticed that some of our clients made mistakes in transaction design. All the transactions of all kinds of activities are kept in one transaction table, with fields createdby, createdon, createdusing, modifiedby, modifiedon and modifiedusing, etc. Initially, the system might work properly. But with time goes, e.g., after 3 years, the transaction table is very likely occupies more than half of the disk spaces of the entire database...

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