Determining How an Entity Should Be Stored

Determining How an Entity Should Be Stored

This section contains the following topics:

Overview

Location Modes

Guidelines for Determining How an Entity Should Be Stored

Graphic Conventions

Location Modes for Entities in the Commonweather Database

Overview

You have now created a preliminary data structure diagram (Chapter 9, "Creating a Preliminary Data Structure Diagram") and have gathered the information necessary to refine this diagram (Chapter 10, "Identifying Application Performance Requirements"). This chapter discusses the first step in the refinement process: assigning location modes to the entities in the database.