I started out in Database Design early in my application development career. I still remember being issued with an official IBM stencil for drawing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). Change ...

A proper database design cannot be thrown together quickly by novices. A practiced and formal approach to gathering data requirements and modeling data is mandatory. This modeling effort requires a ...

Here are the details to two versions of Product Tables, one for Access 2000/97 and one for SQL Server 7. Not all of these fields are necessary in one database. For example, with Size and color you can ...

Database design for platform independence Developers should be aware of the hazards of using nonstandard SQL commands such as those found in Oracle, Microsoft, and MySQL systems.

Database applications serve a vital role in today’s information world, providing structured storage, access, and retrieval of organizational data. This course will explore the principles and practices ...

Pramod Sadalage discuses several patterns in database changes related to Architecture, Structure, Data Quality, Referential Integrity, Database Code, along with associated practices.

How to Design a Travel Website Database. Just as it is wise to design a house before building one, it's also prudent to plan your business database before putting it on your website. Databases can ...

Proper database design will be an important task in the evolution of the broadcast business. To accommodate the multitude of media formats, a good data model is essential.

One of the interesting design challenges facing the people supporting the IEED research effort discussed yesterday involves how much of the key applications to embed in the database design. In ...

Faiz Currim, Sudha Ram, Modeling Spatial and Temporal Set-Based Constraints During Conceptual Database Design, Information Systems Research, Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 109-128 ...