June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 56m
English

In this chapter, we’ll give a demonstration of how you can formally specify a database design. Formalizing a database design specification has the advantage of avoiding any ambiguity in the documentation of not only the database structure but, even more importantly, of all involved data integrity constraints.
Note Within the IT industry, the term business rules is often used to denote what this book refers to as data integrity constraints. However, because a clear definition of what exactly is meant by business rules is seldom given, we cannot ...
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