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 ...

This course will explore the principles and practices of database design, implementation, and management. An emphasis will be placed on the social, technological and organizational needs in database ...

Instead, you should use ANSI SQL, which is a platform-independent database language. Regardless of the database system you use, it should support the ANSI SQL-92 standard if it supports SQL at all.

The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...