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Data Models & Keys

How data can be shaped, why relations won, and the keys that hold a schema together. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 21 minutes in all.

  • Chapter 3 of 34
  • About 21 minutes
  • 8 sections

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The first drawn page of Data Models & Keys: What a data model is
The chapter's first page: What a data model is

In this chapter

  • What a data model is
  • The models before relational, and why they lost
  • The relational model, precisely
  • Super keys and candidate keys
  • Primary keys and alternate keys
  • Foreign keys: how tables connect
  • NULL: the value that is not a value
  • The two integrity rules

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