This discussion on the topic of Database Modeling with Dr. Michael Blaha try to answer the question “How good are UML use cases for Database Design“? His opinion is that use cases are rote work. The developer listens to business experts and slavishly write what they hear with little interpretation and no abstraction. There is little reconciliation of conflicting use cases. In a database project, the conceptual data model is a much more important software engineering contribution than UML use cases.
