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Conceptual model

19 October, 2015 - 10:10
  • These models provide a flexible data structuring capabilities.
  • Community view : the logical structure of the entire database
  • Contains ‘What’ data is stored •
  • Shows relationships among data
  • constraints
  • semantic information (business rules – discussed later)
  • security & integrity information
  • A database is considered as a collection of entities (objects) of various kinds.
  • Basis for identification and high-level description of main data objects, avoids details
  • They are database independent. It does not matter what database you will be using.