BusinessEntity

Source of the ID that connects vendors, customers, and employees with address and contact information.

Package	Physical datamodel example
Author	Bert Dingemans
Alias	--
Stereotypes	table

Attributes

Name	Type	Cardinality	Description
BusinessEntityID	int	1 - 1	Primary key for all customers, vendors, and employees.
rowguid	uniqueidentifier	1 - 1	ROWGUIDCOL number uniquely identifying the record. Used to support a merge replication sample.
ModifiedDate	datetime	1 - 1	Date and time the record was last updated.

Mappings

Name	Source	Source attribute	Target	Target attribute
BusinessEntityID	BusinessEntity	BusinessEntityID	BusinessEntity	BusinessEntityID
rowguid	BusinessEntity	rowguid	BusinessEntity	rowguid
ModifiedDate	BusinessEntity	ModifiedDate	BusinessEntity	ModifiedDate

Diagrams

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Physical example project

Physical data model for the TFG Academy example. It shows a subset of the tables as they are included in the TFG Academy database. These three entities are used and expanded in the other two layers logically and conceptually.

Data Mapping

Data mapping is an example diagram of a data mapping in the IDEA implementation This implementation can be used in for example an ETL process but also for documenting the data flows and transformations in message transformation process or component.