Database Design for Mere Mortals™: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design, Second Edition

Reviewing the Business Rule Specifications Sheets

After you've established the business rules you believe to be appropriate, review their specifications sheets. Carefully examine each specification sheet and make certain that you've properly established the rule and that you've clearly marked all of the appropriate areas on the sheet. If you find an error, make the necessary modifications and review it once more. Repeat this process until you've reviewed every business rule.

Business rules are an important component of the database. They contribute to overall data integrity and impose integrity constraints that are specific to the organization. As you've seen, these rules help to ensure the validity and consistency of the data according ...