Database Design Book Learn how to get from business requirements to a database schema Book length: 145 pages, ~32.000 words. Available in both PDF and in EPUB format. Table of contents and excerpts Purchase for €32 Free complementary chapters 1. Database design case studies [2024-05-20] Database Design for Google…
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Author: Alexey Makhotkin squadette@gmail.com. Introduction In this database design tutorial (~9000 words) I’m going to show how to design the database tables for a real-world project of substantial complexity. We’ll design a clone of Google Calendar. We will model as much as possible of the functionality that is…
Author: Alexey Makhotkin squadette@gmail.com, (~3900 words) One of the goals of this publication is to deconstruct the traditional ways of teaching basic topics in relational databases. Previously we discussed the fourth normal form (4NF): “Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing”. Let’s discuss the…