I have always used Visio to build database schemas. However, with the latest version of Visio, I think Microsoft has really dropped the ball -- the cardinalities are microscopic and nearly impossible ...

For example, Vicki’s Vinyl record shop will have customers, who have orders that relate to albums they have purchased. Attributes can be used to describe individual properties of an entity.

In previous columns ("Integrating Entity Framework with an ASP.NET Web Site," "Extending an Entity Framework Model -- and Some Limitations" and "Using the Entity Model to Create an ASP.NET Page"), ...