ERD

Metadata Tools

6 Different Tools You Can Use to Create ER Diagram (ERD) for Existing Database

List of different categories of tools that you can use to create an ER diagram of your existing database to visualise it...

Piotr Kononow 6 min read

Database Design & Metadata

3 Basic Data Modeling Techniques - ERD, UML and Data Dictionary

In this article I will give you a brief overview of 3 basic data modeling techniques - ER Diagrams, UML Class Diagrams a...

Piotr Kononow 4 min read

Database Design & Metadata

Do You Really Need a Huge ER Diagram for the Entire Database with ALL the Tables?

Many people trying to visualize database want to create a complete diagram with all the tables in the entire database. I...

Piotr Kononow 9 min read

Database Design & Metadata

You Don't Need an ER Diagram to Understand Your Database

ERDs are great for visualizing databases but are not suitable as the documentation in itself. Why and what is? Find out.

Piotr Kononow 6 min read

Metadata Management

ER Diagram vs Data Dictionary – Which is Better for Documenting Data Models

ER Diagram or Data Dictionary. What they are and which is better for documenting data models.

Piotr Kononow 3 min read

Metadata Management

Data Model vs Data Dictionary vs Database Schema vs ERD

Data Model, Data Dictionary, Database Schema, Entity Relationship Diagram. What are all those data related terms? What i...

Piotr Kononow 3 min read