The UML Differs from Traditional Database Modeling

Traditional database modeling promotes the basic theory that the database is the backbone of the system and everything revolves around that database. Although it is true that much—if not most—of the important information of the organization lives within the database, the database cannot stand on its own, and there are many other things that make up the company and its information. Without the applications to open the database to employees, there would be no accessible data. Without customers and transactions, there would be no information for the database. Without a business for which to build the database, there would be no reason to have a database. For these and many other reasons, the database ...

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