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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