Following the Design Process
The greatest problem in application design is a lack of forethought. As it applies to database-driven applications, the design process must include a thorough evaluation of your database—what it should hold, how data relates to each other, and most importantly, whether it is scalable.
The general steps in the design process are
- Define the objective
- Design the data structures (tables, fields)
- Discern relationships
- Define and implement business rules
- Create the application
Creating the application is the last step—not the first! Many developers take an idea for an application, build it, and then go back and try to make a set of database tables fit into it. This approach is completely backward, inefficient, and will cost ...
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