The ORM Foundation

BRN, I totally agree that, ideally, it would be better to focus on a good conceptual model for fixed structure elements. as a matter of fact, if you've read my posts on modeling a bad database design, you know how I lamented that making a good conceptual model does not necessarily produce an accurate representation of the physical structure of ...

Everyone has made some very good point here. I'll add my two cents from a new initiate's perspective: The graphical diagram is most suitible for getting the big picture, conceptually, but subtle little things like constraints are easy to missunderstand. That's where the readings become so valuable to me. I prefer using the textual fact ...

I kept getting this error - usually when entering fact types in the FT editor. Now I have installed PliX and the sept. Norma. while following thru the readme, using the extension manager to turn off OIAL and Relational View and turning on the new preview extensions as recommended, i still get: cannot load ...orm object reference not ...

btw, this also goes for DCIL.xml DDIL.xml OIAL.xml files.

I've been plagued with the following error whenever i save my .orm file: The file xxxx.CorRef.orm has changed since you opened it. Would you like to save the version you have open over the changes on disk? [Save As...] [Overwrite] [Discard in-memory changes] [Cancel] I have no way of knowing which version is newer or why the versions are ...

Now, using extension manager to regenerate it, it does not generate, even after I re-open the file.

by mistake I excluded my sql-server.sql DDL generation from my project. Now, using extension manager to regenerate it, even after I re-open the file. Can anyone tell me how to fix this back the way it was? Thanks, Joe Shirk

FYI Using toolbox valuetype always draws a new EntityType that must then be converted to ValueType. (for me, at least)

I have this error that won't go away: Error 1 Value 'S' in the sample population for value type 'Department_ID' in model 'SBSSM' is not of the specified data type 'NumericAutoCounter'. When i started entering sample data, I did accidentally enter 'S' in the wrong place. I deleted it and now the only sample data showing is valid. this value ...

Temporal:Date maps to SQL server as such: CREATE TABLE SBSSM.OrderHistory ( ''Date'' BIGINT , DeltaDeposit DECIMAL, 4) NOT NULL, DepositTender_TenderEntry_ID BIGINT NOT NULL, Order_Order_ID BIGINT NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT IntrnlUnqnssCnstrnt117 PRIMARY KEY(DeltaDeposit, DepositTender_TenderEntry_ID) ) 1. should not be ...