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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition
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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition

by Christopher Travers, Andrey Volkov
January 2019
Beginner
556 pages
14h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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The car web portal database

At this stage, you can convert the business model of the car web portal presented in Chapter 1, Relational Databases, into a logical model. To help the developer to create a table, follow this minimal checklist:

  • What is the primary key?
  • What is the default value for each column?
  • What is the type of each column?
  • What are the constraints on each column or set of columns?
  • Are permissions set correctly on tables, sequences, and schemas?
  • Are foreign keys specified with the proper actions?
  • What is the data life cycle?
  • What are the operations allowed on the data?

To create the car web portal schema, the formal relational model won't be applied strictly. Also, surrogate keys will be used instead of natural keys. The ...

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ISBN: 9781789535464