Bringing it all together with data modeling

We've covered a lot in this chapter, but now it is time to put the theory into practice and produce something tangible in the form of a data model. Now we know the OWDs we can set, the relationships between objects we can influence, and the owners of records, we can bring them together to produce a data model.

Throughout this book, any data model diagrams will be drawn to the following format (essentially an expanded legend from the example diagram in Chapter 1, Introducing the Salesforce Data Architect Journey):

Figure 2.8 – The format for diagramming Salesforce objects used throughout this book

Now we've looked at the data modeling format, let's now look at a data modeling example.

Data modeling example and explanation

With our data modeling format now covered, let's take a look at an example data model to show how much information we can glean from a single artifact. Here&apos...