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Vertabelo’s Shortcut Tables and How to Use Them Effectively

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Kovid is a Data & Infrastructure Engineer working as a Senior Consultant at Servian in Melbourne, Australia. He is originally from Rohtak, India. In a career spanning 10 years, he has worked for startups and corporates, product companies and service companies alike. He started his career as an Assistant Professor at an engineering college and later moved to a full stack developer role for a while, before finally moving into the data space where he has been working for the past 8 years. He likes to write about data engineering, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps and SRE. He is a semi-trained Indian classical singer, writes poetry in Hindi and Urdu, and hopes to get published someday.

Complex database models are challenging to read and manage. In Vertabelo, you can use many different techniques, including color-coding tables and encapsulating groups of tables in subject areas. Doing this will increase the model’s readability, making it easier to navigate and search within it. A complex data model can be organized using subject areas. Subject areas in Vertabelo are named rectangles that group tables based on a functional or business context.

Vertabelo Feature: How To Organize Your ERD Diagram in Vertabelo

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Kovid Rathee

Better model organization will help you get work done faster. It will become easier to find objects in the model and to onboard new people to the team. In this article, we will give you tips and show you Vertabelo features that will help you effectively organize a large ERD. Sample ERD To discuss entity relationship diagram (ERD) organization, we will be using a recruitment system database model. By the end of this article, you will be able to make this model much better organized and more readable.