The Database Block entity

With Database Blocks, you can describe databases both logically and physically, taking into account the characteristics of certain DBMSs.

The definition and description of the logical or physical Segments is ensured by the Segment entity.

The definition and description of the logical or physical relationships between Segments is ensured by the Database Block entity.

A Database Block is a set of Segments, each of which calls Data Elements.

There are three categories of Database Blocks:

Database generation

The generation of a Database Block generates the Data Description Language (DDL) that corresponds to the Database Block type.

You can replace or complement these generated lines in the -G Lines tab of the Database Block.

Note: For the instances imported from Pacbase, the skeleton language of the local generation is identical to the Pacbase skeleton language. This piece of information is retrieved from the extraction of the Pacbase models and from the import. It is stored in the Library.

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