PowerDesigner provides default model checks to verify the validity of data sources.
Check |
Description and Correction |
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Name/Code contains terms not in glossary |
[if glossary enabled] Names and codes must contain only approved terms drawn from the glossary.
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Name/Code contains synonyms of glossary terms |
[if glossary enabled] Names and codes must not contain synonyms of glossary terms.
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Name/Code uniqueness |
Object names must be unique in the namespace.
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Existence of physical data model |
A data source must contain at least one physical data model in its definition.
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Data source containing models differing DBMS types |
The models in a data source should share the same DBMS since they represent a single database.
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Unsupported source models |
Each lifecycle policy can only manage one external database, so any data sources defined (and the models they reference) must all point to the same database.
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