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Support for the Roles of the Physical Model

Support is provided for both roles of a physical model:

• Generating the physical database
• Documenting physical design against the business requirements

For example, in a logical/physical model, you can create a physical model from an ERD, key-based, or fully attributed model simply by changing the view of the model from Logical Model to Physical Model. Each option in the logical model has a corresponding option in the physical model. Therefore, each entity becomes a relational table, attributes become columns, and keys become indices.

Once the physical model is created, you can generate all model objects in the correct syntax for the selected target server directly to the catalog of the target server, or indirectly as a schema DDL script file.