Data Source Checks (PDM)

PowerDesigner provides default model checks to verify the validity of data sources.

Check

Description and Correction

Data source name and code uniqueness

Data source 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

Existence of physical data model

A data source must contain at least one physical data model in its definition.

Manual correction: Add a physical data model from the Models tab of the property sheet of the data source

Automatic correction: Deletes data source without physical data model

Data source containing models differing DBMS types

The models in a data source should share the same DBMS since they represent a single database.

Manual correction: Delete models with different DBMS or modify the DBMS of models in the data source

Automatic correction: None