Relationship Diagrams-What are your thoughts?
In the last release we introduced a cool tool which allows you to see the structure of your application at a high level. The tool is called "Relationship Diagram". We want to know what you think abou...
Forum Discussion
I have thoroughly evaluated this feature and reviewed the relevant academic literature including this summary:
A COMPARISON OF DATA MODELING TECHNIQUES (search for "crow" within document)
http://essentialstrategies.com/documents/comparison.pdf
I have two conclusions:
1) use crow's foot instead of an arrowhead to connect tables
2) use staircase lines not straight lines to connect tables
BTW, something is wrong with the forum - neither your hyerlink nor mine are clickable.
A COMPARISON OF DATA MODELING TECHNIQUES (search for "crow" within document)
http://essentialstrategies.com/documents/comparison.pdf
I have two conclusions:
1) use crow's foot instead of an arrowhead to connect tables
2) use staircase lines not straight lines to connect tables
BTW, something is wrong with the forum - neither your hyerlink nor mine are clickable.