It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

1. When you start designing your database. It's implicit. It's only a process of reshuffling if you come to a bad designed database. 2. ? 3. You have a table (relation) with Instructors for their rows ...

Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word “normalization.” Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling ...

I have an order table that is an order for a customer. I need to reference as a foreign key an unknown number of products that could make up the order (product_id) how do I do this? What am I missing.

Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented.

I'm relatively new to SQL, so to improve my skills I'm trying to create a simple content management system using MySQL.<BR><BR>My situation is that I have numerous content types (columns, news, essays ...