The first step in transforming a logical data model into a physical model is to perform a simple translation from logical terms to physical objects. Of course, this simple transformation will not ...

As one works through the normal forms, be it a journey to the placid shores of third normal, or the more arid climes of Boyce-Codd normal form, or even the cloudy peaks of fourth normal and beyond-and ...

Database design is not just computational. At every step, social, political, and technical decisions coalesce. In 1973, Pakistan was fresh out of a war of independence; two years earlier, East ...