A proper database design cannot be thrown together quickly by novices. A practiced and formal approach to gathering data requirements and modeling data is mandatory. This modeling effort requires a ...

Again, before you get deep into table design it is important to have a good system for naming tables and fields in tables. There are certain names that are reserved for your database things like DATE, ...

Design reviews are an important facet of the system development lifecycle for database applications. It is during the design review that all aspects of the database and application code are reviewed ...