Building e-Commerce Sites with the .NET Framework

Developing the Data Model

To store data for product categories, products, and product options, we first need to create the MyGolfGear database. As discussed in Chapter 3, “Planning MyGolfGear.NET,” James and I chose to use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for our product catalog. Figure 4.2 shows creating a new database.

Figure 4.2. Creating a new database in SQL Server 2000.

You can take the following steps to create your database:

1.	Right-click the Databases directory under the SQL Server root and select New Database.
2.	Type the name of the database.

The outcome of all these steps is shown in Figure 4.3.

Figure 4.3. The newly created database. ...