Last month I wrote about “Why Reverse Engineering is Always Worthwhile.” So the logical next issue to examine is forward engineering – its different approaches and its many comparative benefits. The best way to do this is via an analogical example

In many shops that I visit, neither the DBA’s nor the database developers place much value on performing data modeling. Often there are seemingly sound reasons for this exclusion: the historically high price of data modeling tools, data models are not required as a project milestone or deliverable, and quite often the database was simply either inherited or supports a third party application – ...