Introducing the Application Development Lifecycle

Before you start building an application, it is very worthwhile to learn more about the process of developing computer applications, and specifically database applications. The procedure for developing a database application seems like it might be a straightforward concept, right? Designing everything on the fly as you go, you build a set of tables and related schema objects along with an application interface that, altogether, does something that you have a relatively good understanding of. This approach could not be more wrong, but surprisingly many applications are built this way. Such haphazard development styles typically result in an application that does not meet its objectives, is not ...

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