A database model that describes the attributes of entities and the relationships among them. An entity is a file (table). Today, ER models are often created graphically, and software converts the ...

Data modeling is the process of defining datapoints and struc­tures at a detailed or abstract level to communicate information about the data shape, content, and relationships to target audiences.

3rd party ORMs on .NET have been driven into a niche market and most of them lost that battle. If you compare the list of ORMs from, say, 2008, vs. today you'll see there aren't many left. Doing the ...