Understanding what a data model is
What is a data model? In short, a data model determines the structure of your data. The Betty Blocks platform consists of models, which have properties. Data models can also have relationships with each other. A data model is basically your database within the platform where you can store all the information your application needs or needs to store. So, what does this mean exactly if you have never used a data model or database before? Let’s take a look at an example and try to present it in a way that you would normally see in a data model or database.
An example of a data model
Let’s take a customer as an example. You want to create a data model that can hold different customers. You want to keep track of your customers and have them all in an app so you can quickly look them up and find their information or add more information to them. So, you would start by creating a Customer model in your data model. In a model, you can...