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 ...

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 ...

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 ...