Before anyone votes to close this as a dupe, know that every question I found so far was a question about specific programs that are good for database modeling. My question is what is the industry standard language (if there is one) for modeling a relational database?
I know UML is very popular in general, especially for OOP modeling, and the author of the book I am currently reading (“Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization” by Davidson) uses IDEF1X. MS Visio, though it supports IDEF1X, defaults to what seems like a generic modeling language without many specific symbols (refered to as the “relational” symbol set), but I know Visio is pretty standard because it’s a part of the Office suite.
So, as a summer intern trying to build my résumé, which modeling language will prove the most useful in the industry for the future?
That would be Entity RelationShip Diagrams, in short ERD.