Logical Database Design
There are two phases of database design: logical and physical. Just as top-down design is important for standard programming practice, it's also important to start with a logical database design before moving on to the physical design. Throughout logical database design, an engineer is concerned with how application requirements map into database requirements. For example, if a business needs to keep track of employees and departments in its database, we need to develop a logical design that meets that goal.
A key process during logical database design is data modeling, or deciding how your application requirements translate into database structures, and then relating those structures. The resulting data model represents ...
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