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Erwin Tutorial: Erwin Workplace Consists of The Following Main Areas

- Erwin is a powerful data modeling tool that allows users to create logical and physical data models, generate databases from models, and more. - It allows modeling at both the logical level (representing business requirements) and physical level (representing database structures). - Users can generate SQL scripts from models to create databases, compare models and databases, and perform other tasks.

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Erwin Tutorial: Erwin Workplace Consists of The Following Main Areas

- Erwin is a powerful data modeling tool that allows users to create logical and physical data models, generate databases from models, and more. - It allows modeling at both the logical level (representing business requirements) and physical level (representing database structures). - Users can generate SQL scripts from models to create databases, compare models and databases, and perform other tasks.

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Erwin Tutorial

All Fusion Erwin Data Modeler commonly known as Erwin, is a powerful and leading data
modeling tool from Computer Associates. Computer Associates delivers several software for
enterprise management, storage management solutions, security solutions, application life
cycle management, data management and business intelligence.

Erwin makes database creation very simple by generating the DDL(sql) scripts from a data
model by using its Forward Engineering technique or Erwin can be used to create data
models from the existing database by using its Reverse Engineering technique.

Erwin workplace consists of the following main areas:

• Logical: In this view, data model represents business requirements like entities,
attributes etc.
• Physical: In this view, data model represents physical structures like tables, columns,
datatypes etc.
• Modelmart: Many users can work with a same data model concurrently.

What can be done with Erwin?

• Logical, Physical and dimensional data models can be created.


• Data Models can be created from existing systems(rdbms, dbms, files etc.).
• Different versions of a data model can be compared.
• Data model and database can be compared.
• SQl scripts can be generated to create databases from data model.
• Reports can be generated in different file formats like .html, .rtf, and .txt.
• Data models can be opened and saved in several different file types like .er1, .ert,
.bpx, .xml, .ers, .sql, .cmt, .df, .dbf, and .mdb files.
• By using ModelMart, concurrent users can work on the same data model.

In order to create data models in Erwin, you need to have this All Fusion Erwin Data Modeler
installed in your system. If you have installed Modelmart, then more than one user can work
on the same model.

How to create a Logical Data Model using CA Erwin Data Modeler Version 9?

In the following section, a simple example with a step by step procedure to create a logical
data model with two entities and their relationship are explained in detail.

• Open CA Erwin Data Modeler Version 9 software.


• Go to menu 'file' and click 'new'. A new box will be displayed. Click the button
logical/physical from type. From the drop down list box, select 'oracle' as the database
and version as '10g/11g'. Click OK button. A new workspace is created. To select
notation 'IDEF1X' or 'IE' Go to MODEL/MODEL PROPERTIES/GENERAL TAB to
change.
• Above the workspace, you can see menus File, Edit, View, Diagram, Model, Actions,
Tools, Windows, Help. Below that you can see the following tool bars. Standard,
Toolbox, Formatting, Layout, Zoom, Display, Mart, Database, Alignment, Drawing,
Transformations, Customize. On the display toolbar, you can see 'Logical' selected by
default i.e. you will be working on creation of a logical data model.
• To create an Entity, click the icon "Entity" from 'Toolbox' Toolbar and drop it on the
workplace. By default E/1 will be displayed as the entity name and type it as
'Country'.
• To create an Attribute, Place the cursor on the entity 'Country' and right click it. From
the displayed menu, click attribute properties which will take you to the attribute
wizard. You can see a button New. Click 'New' on the wizard and type attribute name
as 'Country Code'. You can see different headers like 'Parent Domain', 'Logical
Datatype', 'Primary Key', 'Foreign Key, 'Logical Only'. Select the parent domain as
'string' and by default logical datatype becomes 'varchar2(20)'. Change the datatype to
'varchar2 (2); Click the check box near the primary key. Similarly create another
column Country Name with parent domain as 'string' and datatype as 'varchar2 (50)'.
Select NULL OPTION as 'NOT NULL' from the NULL OPTION list box. THERE
ARE DIFFERENT TABS LIKE 'General', 'Constraint', 'Link', 'Key Groups', 'Style',
'Definition', 'Where Used', 'UDP', 'Notes' etc. To create constraints, you can use
'constraint' tab. To create indexes, you can use 'key groups' tab. For typing attribute
definition ' you can use 'definition tab'. For changing font size, font name, font color,
you can use 'style tab'. For seeing the properties like event, date created, created by,
data modified, modified by, you can use 'Notes' tab. Click ok, and now you will be
having 2 attributes Country Code, and Country Name under the entity 'Country' in the
current logical workplace.
• Create another entity 'Bank' with two attributes namely Bank Code and Bank Name.
• In order to relate these two tables country, bank, a Foreign Key relationship must be
created. To create a Foreign Key relationship, follow these steps.
o Click the symbol 'Non Identifying Relationship' from 'Toolbox' Toolbar.
o Place the cursor on the entity 'Country'.
o Place the cursor on the entity 'Bank'. Now you can see the relationship (a line drawn from Bank
to Country) between 'Country' and 'Bank'. Double click on that relationship line to open
'Relationships wizard' and change the option from 'Nulls Allowed' to 'No Nulls' since bank
should have a country code.

The Logical Data Model created by following the above steps looks similar to the
following diagram.

• SAVE: To save the file, click save button in the 'standard' tool bar and save it as
.'CA_Erwin_Data_Modeler_v9_example' and file type will be .erwin.

How to create a Physical Data Model using CA Erwin Data Modeler Version 9?

• Change the view from 'Logical to Physical' from the drop down list.
• If you want to add some physical properties, you can add it here.

Explanation:

In the logical view: When you right click and view entity properties for entity 'Country', you
can see tabs like volumetrics, definition, style, icon, where used, UDP, NOTES etc. The
information that you fill will explain about entity properties.
In the physical view: when you right click and view table properties for table 'country', you
can see tabs like table options, general, partitions, supplemental logging, validation,
materialized view log, style, icon, synonym comment, object creation order, where used,
UDP, Notes etc. If you are an expert, then you can fill relevant details in the above mentioned
tabs so that it will be useful while creating scripts. If you are not an expert, you can discuss
with DBAs, get relevant information and fill details.

How to generate DDL(sql) scripts to create a database using CA Erwin Data


Modeler Version 9?

Click menu 'edit'. Navigate to 'selection' and click 'select all'. Objects bank and country will
be highlighted.
Click the 'forward engineer schema generation' icon in the 'database' tool bar. A new Wizard
appears.
There are two boxes. On the left side box, you can several database objects. On the right side
box, you can see different options for each object.

Left Side Box Right Side Box

Database Do not select anything

Schema Do not select anything

Storage Do not select anything

Table 1) Check table under 'create' option

Materialized View Log Do not select anything

Column Do not select anything

Materialized View Do not select anything

View Do not select anything

Index Do not select anything

1) Check 'create/pk' under 'primary key/pk';


Referential Integrity
2) Check 'create/fk' under 'foreign key (FK)'

Trigger Do not select anything

Other Options Click 'constraint name'

Click preview. You can see the sql code generated by Erwin data modeler tool.

CREATE TABLE Country ( Country_Code VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,


Country_Name VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT XPKCountry PRIMARY KEY (Country_Code) );
CREATE TABLE Bank ( Bank_Code VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
Bank_Name VARCHAR2(50) NOT NULL ,
Country_Code VARCHAR2(2) NOT NULL ,
CONSTRAINT XPKBank PRIMARY KEY (Bank_Code),
CONSTRAINT Country_to_Bank FOREIGN KEY (Country_Code) REFERENCES Country
(Country_Code) );

How to create a Logical Data Model using Erwin 4.1.4 version?

In the following section, a simple example with a step by step procedure to create a logical
data model with two entities and their relationship are explained in detail.
1: Open All Fusion Erwin Data Modeler software.
2: Select the view as "Logical" from the drop-down list. By default, logical will be your
workplace.
3: Click New from File menu. Select the option "Logical/Physical" from the displayed
wizard. Click Ok.

4: To create an Entity, click the icon "Entity" and drop it on the workplace. By default E/1
will be displayed as the entity name. Change it to "Country".
5: To create an Attribute, Place the cursor on the entity "Country" and right click it. From
the displayed menu, click attributes which will take you to the attribute wizard. Click "New"
button on the wizard and type attribute name as "Country Code". Select the data type as
"String" and click OK. Select the option Primary Key to identify attribute "Country Code"
as the primary key. Follow the same approach and create another attribute "Country Name"
without selecting the primary key option. Click ok, and now you will be having 2 attributes
Country Code, and Country Name under the entity "Country" in the current logical
workplace.
6: Create another entity "Bank" with two attributes namely Bank Code and Bank Name by
following steps 4 and 5.

7: In order to relate these two tables country, bank, a Foreign Key relationship must be
created. To create a Foreign Key relationship, follow these steps.
(a) Click the symbol "Non Identifying Relationship".
(b) Place the cursor on the entity "Country".
(c) Place the cursor on the entity "Bank". Now you can see the relationship(a line drawn from
Bank to Country) between "Country" and "Bank". Double click on that relationship line to
open "Relationships wizard" and change the option from "Nulls Allowed" to "No Nulls"
since bank should have a country code.

The Logical Data Model created by following the above steps looks similar to the following
diagram.

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