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PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 7th Edition
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PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 7th Edition

by Tom Butler
February 2022
Beginner
680 pages
11h 34m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 5: Relational Database Design

Since Chapter 3, we’ve worked with a very simple database of jokes, composed of a single table named (appropriately enough) joke. While this database has served us well as an introduction to MySQL databases, there’s more to relational database design than can be understood from this simple example. In this chapter, we’ll expand on this database and learn a few new features of MySQL, in an effort to realize and appreciate the real power that relational databases have to offer.

Be forewarned that I’ll cover several topics only in an informal, non-rigorous sort of way. As any computer science major will tell you, database design is a serious area of research, with tested and mathematically provable principles ...

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