One of the principles within relational theory is that each entity’s row or tuple be uniquely identifiable. This means the defined structure includes some combination of attributes whose populated ...

In the development business, there’s no excuse for a bad design. Unfortunately, you probably know developers who skip through or completely ignore the design process because they don’t understand the ...

It seems as if it should be simple. Within a normalized database model, a one-to-many relationship is represented by establishing a foreign key on the entity at the many-side of the binary ...

The Rise of Logical Data Management by Christopher Gardner is a thoroughly researched and timely guide for understanding how ...

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When it comes to providing reliable, flexible, and efficient object persistence for software systems, today's designers and architects are faced with many choices. From the technological perspective, ...

Data modeling, at its core, is the process of transforming raw data into meaningful insights. It involves creating representations of a database’s structure and organization. These models are often ...