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Data Elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| in software engineering is an abstract model that describes how data are represented and accessed. Formally define data elements and relationships among data elements for a domain of interest. | A data model |
| the two key benefits that make a data model important to applications that use and exchange data | Communication and precision |
| The main aim of data models? | Tto support the development of information systems by providing the definition and format of data. |
| A data model instance | Conceptual schema : Logical schema : Physical schema : |
| Conceptual schema : | Describes the semantics of a domain. being the scope of the model.Consists of entity classes, representing kinds of things in the domain, and relationships asserts about associats between pairs of entity classes. |
| Conceptual schema : | Often called a subject area model (SAM) or high-level data model (HDM), this model is used to communicate core data concepts, rules, and definitions to a business user as part of an overall application development or enterprise initiative. |
| Logical schema : | describes the semantics, as represented by a particular data manipulation technology. This consists of descriptions of tables and columns, object oriented classes, and XML tags, among other things. |