Posted By:
jim_conallen
Posted On:
Thursday, June 7, 2001 10:18 AM
bluerr,
I got this answer from Eric Naiburg, who is an expert in this area of uml application, and he said:
Yes you can use the class diagram to model the logical data model and it in fact is very well supported. The inheritance/generalization gives full support for super/sub typing, cardinality is supported as well as the ability to create an association entity that is related directly to the relationship rather than each entity as it should be. I don't believe that stored procedures are modeled in the logical model, but if you would like, you can use a class with operations stereotyped as a <> to represent it as it does make sense. This is actually how Rational Rose represents a stored procedure as part of the
UML Profile for Database Design. The relationships you should use would be association for non-mandatory/non-identifying relationships and composite aggregations for identifying/mandatory relationships. They map very well to the data model constructs.
Hope this helps.