This study highlights the STEP standard as important standard in
information modeling to model necessary information throughout
the lifecycle of any product exchanging this information among
different systems. During this study, we will try to hig
hlight some
parts of this standard used in software engineering domain and
compare them with used ways in this domain.
This paper aims to study the Conceptual Tools used in Conceptual Modeling
of Database, so that Benefit of Extending these Tool used in Effective Relational
Database Design could be found out.
In this study, we investigated two application examples
, through which two
Conceptual diagrams were used to build Relational Database.
The main result of this study was, the benefit from the extending the
Conceptual Tools for designing a Relational Database could be achieved when
this extension to Tools used in building is applicable to the Database. Since the
Conceptual Modeling stage of the Database, has to be simple and clear, the
extension is not recommended for modeling Conceptual diagrams of large
systems, which has time limits.
