From: Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad@ebi.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Database Design and Modelling
Date: 2000/05/05
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Vincent> There are now several extensions to the Chen's original ER proposal.
Vincent> <br>For instance, you can now have inheritance (Teorey, Yang and Fry),
Vincent> reference attributes,
Vincent> <br>cardinalities, complex constraints, ...

In other words, it's nearly UML, now ;-) Seriously, UML seems now to be the
main thing (as in 'momentum'). That's not a value judgement, that's just an
observation. Use whatever works for you, and for which your tools provide the
right support. 

BTW, your hyperlinks, referring to french material, are less than useful for
some of us; http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~dbm/informations.html seems to be a
better starting point.

                                                                      Philip
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