Vertical Partitioning Checks (PDM)

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

Check

Description and Correction

Vertical partitioning name and code uniqueness

Vertical partitioning 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 partition

A vertical partitioning object cannot be empty, it must contain at least one partition.

Manual correction: Delete the vertical partitioning object or create at least one partition in the vertical partitioning object property sheet

Automatic correction: Deletes empty vertical partitioning object

Unavailable target table

A partition should have a corresponding table. You could delete a table that actually corresponds to a partition, this check verifies that each partition has a corresponding table.

Manual correction: Delete the partition with no corresponding table

Automatic correction: Deletes the partition with no corresponding table