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The Second Design Layer: The Generic Physical Model

You use the generic physical model to establish the structure of the tables and columns and to create the generic naming needed to represent your business application. But, in the physical generic data model, the objects and properties are independent of a database. Other database-specific data models can be derived from a generic physical data model.