Discussion Forum Data Model
A discussion internet forum is a discussion area on a website. This discussion forum data model supports thread-based discussion with the option to follow a thread. Moderators may modify and delete threads and or posts. U user must agree to the forum terms before the user can post messages and/or start threads.
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Notation: IDEF1X
IDEF1X Notation | Crow's Foot Notation
Entities in this data model:
User ,Forum ,Thread ,Terms ,TermsAgreed ,ForumModerator ,Post ,ThreadFollower ,ModeratorAction ,EmailMessage ,Recipient
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The download is a zipfile containing .dez files (the data model), images of the data model, and a license agreement. The .dez file contains a data model with MS SQL Server 2005 as target database. You can easily switch the target database to another database (MS Access, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL,...) in DeZign for Databases.
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