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2. Entity-Relationship Models
Subsections
Introduction
2.1 Sample models used in this manual
2.1.1 Model: AuthorBooks
2.1.2 Model: StoreEmployees
2.2 Concepts
2.3 Full description
2.3.1 Model
2.3.2 Entity
2.3.2.1 Primary keys
2.3.3 Attribute
2.3.3.1 Primary keys
2.3.3.2 Foreign keys
2.3.4 Relationship
2.4 PyModels
2.4.1 Organization of this chapter
2.4.2 A sample PyModel
2.4.3 Defaults
2.4.4 Model
2.4.4.1 Model's
version
2.4.5 Entity
2.4.6 Attribute
2.4.6.1 ADateTime
2.4.6.2 AFloat
2.4.6.3 AInteger
2.4.6.4 AString
2.4.6.5 APrimaryKey
2.4.6.6 AForeignKey
2.4.7 Relationship
2.4.7.1 BaseRelationship
2.4.7.2 RToOne
2.4.7.3 RToMany
2.4.7.4 Inverse relationships
2.4.8 Association
2.5 X
ML
model
2.5.1 Overview of the xml
2.5.2 Model
2.5.3 Entity
2.5.3.1 Primary keys
2.5.3.2 Definition of an entity
2.5.4 Attribute
2.5.5 Relationship
2.5.5.1 Joins
2.5.6 Full format of an xml-model
2.6 General guidelines and gotchas
2.6.1 Simple models (no inheritance)
2.6.2 Designing relationships
2.6.3 Modeling many-to-many relationships
2.6.3.1 General principle: the correlation table
2.6.3.2 A short example
2.6.4 How to model inheritance
2.6.4.1 Horizontal Mapping
2.6.4.2 Vertical Mapping
2.6.4.3 Filtered Mapping
2.7 Tools
2.7.1 The ZModeler
2.7.2 Scripts
2.8 Some References on E.-R. Modelling
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