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Purpose of Step 1 is to build a logical data model of the data requirements of a company (or part of a company) to be supported by the database.
Each logical data model comprises:
• entities,
• relationships,
• attributes and attribute domains,
• primary keys and alternate keys,
• integrity constraints.
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