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- ADO.NET Tech Preview: Entity Data Model
- The Entity Data Model is an Entity-Relationship data model. The ER model is familiar to most if not all database application developers, and has been used successfully for about 30 years. The central concepts in the EDM are entities and relationships. Entities are instances of Entity Types (e.g., Customer, Employee)...
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Entity, Entity Data Model, Storage, Databases, .Net, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-06-01
Additional Resources
- The ADO.NET Entity Framework: Making the Conceptual Level Real
- This paper describes the ADO.NET Entity Framework, a platform for programming against data that raises the level of abstraction from the logical relational level to the conceptual entity level, and thereby significantly reduces the impedance mismatch for applications and data services such as reporting, analysis, and replication. The conceptual data...
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-12-01
- MSDN Webcast: Programming LINQ and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (Level 200)
- Language Integrated Query LINQ introduces an exciting new way for applications to build strongly typed queries that are deeply integrated into the programming language. The ADO.NET Entity Framework allows applications and services to work in terms of an application-oriented Entity Data Model, decoupling the application's data model from the storage...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Application, Webcast, Microsoft ADO.NET, LINQ, Programming, ADO.NET Entity Framework, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-01-30
- A Health-Care Data Model Based on the HL7 Reference Information Model
- The integration of medical information from various sources is gaining in importance as hospitals and medical research centers attempt to gain new insights into existing data. The Health Level Seven (HL7) organization has developed an abstract information model for health-care data, the HL7 Reference Information Model RIM. This paper describes...
- Tags: Data, Health Care, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2006-12-19
- The Java Persistence API - A Simpler Programming Model for Entity Persistence
- A major enhancement in Enterprise JavaBeans EJB technology is the addition of the new Java Persistence API, which simplifies the entity persistence model and adds capabilities that were not in EJB 2.1 technology. The Java Persistence API deals with the way relational data is mapped to Java objects ("Persistent entities"),...
- Tags: Programming Model, API, Programming, Entity Persistence, EJB, J2Ee, Programming Languages, Java, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Data Matching Technology
- Accurate data matching is a fundamental requirement for many data processing applications. It's an obvious requirement for data cleansing: recognizing whether two or more records represent the same person, product, company, or other data entity is an essential step to eliminating duplicates. It's also a key requirement for data integration:...
- Tags: Data, Computer, Netrics, Decision Engine, Productivity
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Extended Persistence Context in Stateful Session Beans
- The Java Persistence Architecture, a part of the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (EJB 3.0) specification, simplified the development of EJB applications using data persistence. A major simplification was the introduction of the EntityManager interface for accessing a database and creating, removing, or updating entities within a transaction. Entities are objects that...
- Tags: Persistence Context, Entity Instance, EJB, J2Ee, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
- White papers 2008-02-15
- Appreciating the Entity Object
- An Oracle Application Development Framework ADF entity object represents a business domain entity such as an order, a part, a customer, or a service request. By creating a set of associated Oracle ADF entity objects that represents the full business domain model inside the J2EE applications, one can significantly boost...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Entity, J2Ee, Middleware, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
- MSDN Webcast: ADO.NET Data Services Overview (Part 1 of 2) (Level 100)
- This webcast illustrates how to take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code-named Astoria) to easily and securely expose data as services over HTTP. It gives an overview of REST, the architectural style underlying ADO.NET Data Services. Then it gives a high-level demonstration of how to expose an Entity Framework...
- Tags: Data Service, Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft ADO.NET, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-06-17
- Catalog Database Model (zip)
- The Catalog Database Model is a relational data model designed to manage product catalogs. It is a flexible data model, which is designed with globalization in mind. It can be used by the software developers and architects who design and develop catalogs and retail stores types of software applications. The...
- Tags: Database Design, Ecsential, Catalog Database Model, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Software/Web Development, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2005-12-21
- Invoke UDFs that accept tables with SQL Server 2005's APPLY operator
- Hihgly proprietaryThis is a highly proprietary and seems to be an attempt to mimic procedural programming. The right answer is never pass a table name as a parameter. You need to understand the basic idea of a data model and what a table means in implementing a data model....
- Tags: Invoke UDF, sql udf apply, jcelko212@..., software, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, UDF
- Discussion threads 2006-09-05
- ADO.NET vNext Entity Data Model Designer Prototype, CTP (msi)
- The ADO.NET vNext Entity Data Model Designer Prototype CTP enables developers to design their data access stack using a designer in Visual Studio. This is an unsupported tool that showcases upcoming ideas for ADO.NET vNext tooling and Visual Studio integration. It also illustrates how ADO.NET vNext developers might use Visual...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft ADO.NET, ADO.NET vNext Entity Data Model Designer Prototype CTP, .Net, Microsoft Development Tools, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-08-22
- Converting an EJB 2.0 Entity Bean to EJB 3.0
- The Enterprise JavaBeans EJB 3.0 specification has facilitated the development of EJBs, by providing an annotations-based API in which the remote/local and home/local home interfaces are not required. The deployment descriptors that form the basis of an EJB 2.0 entity bean are also not required for deploying an EJB 3...
- Tags: EJB 2.0, EJB, J2Ee, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Philosophical ramblings on an abstract subject
- blog rootWhy model the world?I just participated a seminar where the topic today was, titillatingly, "management of knowledge and ignorance". The lecture handled an ontology developed by the Finnish professor emeritus Veikko Pohjola. He claimsamong other things that each entity in this world can be modelled as consisting of four...
- Tags: Strategy, ilkka.karanta@...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
- ADO.NET vNext Part 2: Using the Object Services Layer
- The first installment of the three-part article series introduced the core concepts of ADO.NET vNext, including the Entity Data Model EDM, Entity SQL, and the Mapping Provider. It also discussed the steps involved in executing entity SQL queries against the EDM and retrieving output in the form of rows and...
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Jupitermedia Corp., .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-12-08
- DTM Data Modeler (exe)
- DTM Data Modeler is a CASE tool for database developers that supports both forward and reverse engineering. It is an easy-to-use tool allowing you to work both with logical and physical data models in the form of an entity-relationship (IDEF1X) diagram. The product is intended for database architects and developers...
- Tags: Developer, Window, Product, SQL, DTM Data Modeler, Databases, Productivity, Construction, Storage, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-03-28
- The Data Model Score Card Conference Call
- The author of The Data Modeler's Workbench has formalized a set of data model quality criteria into his Data Model Scorecard. The Scorecard contains all of the criteria for highlighting strengths and identifying weakness in model designs.
- Tags: Card, Computer Associates International Inc., Scorecard
- Webcasts
- MSDN Webcast: Entity Framework for Database Administrators (Level 200)
- The Entity Framework is a new data technology from Microsoft that may particularly interest database administrators DBAs. This webcast shows how this technology can radically change the development of applications from a DBA perspective, and also change access patterns on servers. It also discusses these changes and their impact on...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Database Administrator, Webcast, Entity Framework
- Webcasts 2007-09-29
- So, Your Data Are in Excel!
- Excel is not a relational database; it's a spreadsheet. A relational database contains tables where each column holds the value for an attribute. Every value in that column holds the same attribute, but for a different entity. Each row holds the attributes for a single entity. SAS expects its datasets...
- Tags: SAS Institute, RDBMS, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-01-23
- The Power of Rational Data Architect: An Overview of Rational Data Architect and SOA
- The evolution of software development has taken a paradigm shift from the monolithic architectures of the past that used conventional procedure-based programming. After procedural programming came the era of client-server computing, where there was a notable distinction between data and the client and business logic. This is the era where...
- Tags: Data, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Technology, Web Services, E-business/E-Commerce, Middleware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-02
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