May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
815 pages
21h 55m
English
book
SQL Server® 2008 Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Tom Carpenter
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Chapter Essentials
Planning a Database It is important to gather information from the users of the database. If you try to plan the database on your own, you will perform a lot of refactoring and table modifications late in the project.
Understanding Entity Relationship Diagramming ER diagramming is used to logically represent a database. The model can be used to discuss the database and to look for missing information before you create the database and other valuable tasks. ER diagrams can use several different notation schemes.
Building an ERD An ERD can be built using Visio and many other tools. In this chapter, you looked at creating an ERD with both Visio and an open source tool called Open System Architect.
Capacity Planning Once the database ...