Database Checks (PDM)

PowerDesigner provides default model checks to verify the validity of databases.

Check

Description and Correction

Database name and code uniqueness

Database names and codes must be unique in the model.

Manual correction: Modify the duplicate name/code

Automatic correction: Appends a number to the duplicate name/code

Database code maximum length

The code of the database is longer than the maximum allowed by the DBMS.

Manual correction: Reduce the length of the code

Automatic correction: Reduces the code to a permissible length

Database not used

The database you have created is not used in the model.

Manual correction: Delete the database or apply the database as a physical option to a table, an index, a key, a column, a storage, a tablespace or a view (Options tab of the object property sheet)

Automatic correction: None