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How to embed a database diagram on the Internet
4 Dec 2013
So I’m sitting here thinking to myself: How should I share a new Vertabelo feature with you?
Should I write an over-hyped article full of industry jargon and marketing-speak?
Hmmm. Tried and failed.
I’ve just gotta show you the feature straight up and how simple it is to use. More meat, little fat, no fluff :).
Well tah dah! Here it is:
Go ahead, click on it. Use the mouse wheel to zoom.
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Theory and History: Why are Relational Databases “Relational”?
27 Nov 2013
Many people wonder why relational databases are called “relational.” Some think that it’s because of a logical entity-relationship model you often start your design with. Or, because you have tables and relationships (aka foreign keys) between them. But that’s not the case.
The name comes from the mathematical notion of “relation.” It all started with E. F. Codd who in 1970 (in the article A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks) proposed something now called relational algebra as the mathematical foundation of databases.
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Good news: we now support views
20 Nov 2013
Today we are happy to announce that Vertabelo has a new feature we've been working on for some time – views. Now you can easily add them to the diagram, change their definition and other properties and have them generated in your SQL scripts.
Quick overview of views Let's take a look at how simple it is to create a new view in our editor.
Our goal is to make a view which joins three tables as follows:
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Five reasons why we built Vertabelo
9 Oct 2013
We are launching a new product on a market, so let me tell you the short story about how and why Vertabelo was born.
e-point and I personally have more than fifteen years of experience in building business applications. All of them use relational databases as a storage for their data. Most of those applications are rather big - think about hundreds of tables in a database and hundreds of screens in a UI.
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