Chapter 14

Database Design Case Study #2: East Coast Aquarium

Abstract

This chapter presents the second of three major case studies in the book. It presents a database environment for which two distinct databases that do not share data are an appropriate solution. The larger of the two databases include several many-to-many relationships that must be handled by the design. The case study also includes the use of a CASE tool to provide a prototype user interface for database applications.

Keywords

database design
database case study
ER diagrams
SQL CREATE
prototyping
database prototyping
many-to-many relationships
Many-to-many relationships are often the bane of the relational database designer. Sometimes, it is not completely clear that you are ...

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