Chapter 5. Designing a Database to Solve Business Needs

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Model business needs

  • Validate business requirements through entity-relationship models

  • Understand Microsoft SQL Server 2005 datatypes

  • Enforce data integrity through table constraints

In this chapter, you will learn how to design and create a database to support business and application requirements. You will learn modeling techniques and practices that will assist in the process of transforming a business requirement document into the Transact-SQL (T-SQL) code required to create the database.

Designing a Database Conceptually

Database design is a critical part of the software development process. To ensure that the design fulfills business and ...

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