Data Analysis
Now you’re ready to begin a more thorough analysis of your data and to organize the individual elements into data subjects. These subjects become candidates for tables in your database design.
Choosing the Database Subjects
If you’ve been careful in identifying the subject for each data item you need, the next step is very easy. You create another worksheet, similar to the worksheet shown in Figure 28-4, to help you collect all the data items that belong to each subject. In the top part of the worksheet, you list the related subjects that appear in any given task and indicate the kind of relationship.
Figure 28-4. This application design ...
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