One of our utility clients uses MS Visio as its logical data modeling tool. MS Visio is designed as a drawing 
tool,not as a professional data modeling tool by Microsoft official statement. To create DDL from MS Visio diagram is not straightforward; usually it takes lots of efforts.
We prefer to use UML modeling instead of ERD modeling. Since to adopt object-oriented design in database field is better aligned with object-oriented application design. In order to achieve this goal, we did some research on quite a few tools in the market, and we found Visual Paradigm is an ideal UML modeling tool in data architectural design.
Below is a case study regarding how we transit client’s data model from Visio to Visual Paradigm in their data warehouse project, and how we utilize Visual Paradigm in...
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