Active Server Pages 3.0 from Scratch

Data Modeling

One thing about building Web sites is that you hit upon a lot of different disciplines. Fortunately, you don't have to be an expert at all of them. I bring that up now because data modeling is another concept that could have a book of its own. In designing a database, there are a lot of factors to consider, from deciding what database to use in the first place, to how to lay out the files on the disks, to what tables to use. In this case, however, you have a very small database, so you can discount all but the tables themselves.

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Two excellent books on data modeling are Case Method: Entity Relationship Modeling (Computer Aided Systems Engineering) by Richard Barker, and Case Method: Function and Process Modeling by Richard Barker ...