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Example: What is a Conceptual Data Model?
# What is conceptual data model to me?
There are many good definition of this term.
In layman's term, it's the big picture of a Business's data
domain and processes that occur in it. During the design
phase of an application or a database, a team creates conceptual,
logical and physical data model. Some teams combine conceptual
and logical data model effort while others do only the
physical data model. Here is a basic example of the
conceptual data model.
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| Customers |--------------> | Address |
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| Orders |<-------------- | Products |
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