Database management systems notes
Schema Design in Practice
The decisions normalization does not cover, and the anti-patterns that survive it. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 20 minutes in all.
- Chapter 16 of 34
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- Naming, and why consistency beats cleverness
- Natural or surrogate keys
- Recording time, and deletes that do not delete
- Anti-pattern: entity-attribute-value
- Two more that pass normalization
- Changing a live schema
- A schema review checklist
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