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Using Erwin To Model Your Data: Supplied by Computer Associates As Part of Allfusion

Using ERWin, you can model data by: 1. Opening ERWin from the program files and choosing the logical/physical model type. 2. Customizing the toolbar icons to allow adding entities and relationships. 3. Right clicking on entity and attribute icons to add them and set properties like primary keys. 4. Creating relationships between entities by selecting the parent and child entities. 5. Generating a database schema by using the physical model and database type, then configuring generation options.

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57 views26 pages

Using Erwin To Model Your Data: Supplied by Computer Associates As Part of Allfusion

Using ERWin, you can model data by: 1. Opening ERWin from the program files and choosing the logical/physical model type. 2. Customizing the toolbar icons to allow adding entities and relationships. 3. Right clicking on entity and attribute icons to add them and set properties like primary keys. 4. Creating relationships between entities by selecting the parent and child entities. 5. Generating a database schema by using the physical model and database type, then configuring generation options.

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Using ERWin to model your

data
Supplied by Computer Associates
as part of AllFusion
ERWin
• To open, choose the following path:
– Program files > CA Associates > AllFusion >
ERWin Data Modeler > ERWin
Starting ERWin
Use the logical/physical type
Pick your model type…
Blank model
Change the model properties
The model properties
can be changed by
choosing ‘model’ from
the menu across the
top, and then model
properties.
Click the NOTATION
tab and select the IE
notation for both
logical and physical
models.
Customise the tool bar
• Choose view, toolbars and toolbox.
• This will give icons to allow you to add
entities and relationships from the toolbar.
Alternately, to add…
• Entities
– Right click on the entity icon in the browser
• The browser is the left panel on the screen
To add attributes…
• Expand the entity icon.
• Right click on the attributes icon and add
an attribute.
• Right click on the attribute, to open the
properties.
– Here, primary keys can be set and data types
can be allocated.
Adding foreign keys
How to
• Open the ‘parent relationship’ from the
course.
• Choose the student as child entity.
– Note, if you tick ‘identifying’, the key will
become part of the primary key of the child
entity. You may NOT WANT THAT!
Result of ‘identifying’
Non-identifying…
To get ‘physical’…
• Drop down the ‘logical’ box to get
‘physical’.
To generate a schema…
• Use the physical model
• Choose the database as Oracle 9.x
– There’s no 10g available.
• Choose Forward Engineer / Schema
generation
• Ensure that you go through each of the
generated items, and set the ticks
correctly, as shown in next slides.
Schema options
View options
Table options
Column options
Index options
Referential Integrity
Trigger
Other options
When all parameters chosen…
• Click Generate, if you can connect to your
schema, otherwise,
• Click Preview
– This gives you the SQL you need to run to set
up your schema in the way you have
configured it.
– You can save that SQL in a file and run it.
Preview

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