New Data Model Features v15.3
PowerDesigner v15.3 includes new features for the Physical Data Model (PDM).
Support for information lifecycle management is extended to handle the movement of indexes associated with the tables managed by the lifecycle. In addition, an improved lifecycle property sheet now displays all the elements required to define a lifecycle on a single tab.
- Data Modeling > Building Data Models > Physical Implementation > Lifecycles (PDM)
The Estimate Database Size mechanism now includes support for the growth in size of a database over a period of years, and the estimation algorithms can be customized through scripts in the DBMS definition file.
- Data Modeling > Building Data Models > Generating and Reverse-Engineering Databases > Generating a Database from a PDM > Estimating Database Size
Data profiling constraints have been enhanced to provide better case support and reuse of test data profiles, and data formats can now be reused between multiple objects.
- Data Modeling > Building Data Models > Physical Diagrams > Columns (PDM) > Setting Data Profiling Constraints
Database packages can now be defined through a template, so that PowerDesigner will generate packages specific to each table and update them automatically when you make changes to the table definition.
- Data Modeling > DBMS Definition Reference > Oracle > Database Packages (Oracle) > Database Package Templates
The PDM metamodel has been simplified to provide better support for schemas, materialized views, join indexes, and inner joins.
The following DBMS versions are added or enhanced:
- Teradata v13
- HP Neoview
- Sybase SQL Anywhere v12
- Data Modeling > DBMS Definition Reference