10 Useful articles about Database design

This is a list of ten useful articles about database design which includes some tips and practical suggests to help you to design quickly databases for your web projects.

The list includes some tips to define relationships-entities model, common database design mistakes, database normalization, how to use PHP and SQL to create tables and relationships and a correct approach to define relationships between tables.

1. Ten Common Database Design Mistakes
By Louis Davidson - No list of mistakes is ever going to be exhaustive. People (myself included) do a lot of really stupid things, at times, in the name of "getting it done." This list simply reflects the database design mistakes that are currently on my mind, or in some cases, constantly on my mind.
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2. Define relationships-entities model (tables, attributes, and relationships)
This post explains step-by-step how to design a typical database relationships-entities model.
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3. Database Design and Modeling Fundamentals
This article covers the basics of database design including normalization, relationships and cardinality. A great tutorial on database design.
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4. Create tables and relationships with SQL
A simple tutorial which illustrates how to implement a database using SQL and phpMyAdmin.
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5. Database Normalization and Table structures
Normalisation is the term used to describe how you break a file down into tables to create a database. There are 3 or 4 major steps involved known as 1NF (First Normal Form), 2NF (Second Normal Form), 3NF (Third Normal Form) and BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form). There are others but they are rarely if ever used. A database is said to be Normalised if it is in 3NF (or ideally in BCNF).
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6. How to use PHP and SQL to create tables and relationships
A simple tutorial which explains how to use PHP and SQL to create quickly tables and relatioships.
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7. Table and Database Operations in PHP
In this article by Marc Delisle, we will learn how to perform some operations that influence tables or databases as a whole. We will cover table attributes and how to modify them, and also discuss multi-table operations.
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8. Practical database design, normalization, history, and event logging
What are the best choices when designing the schema for a relational database? What is the rationale in deciding in favor of one and against some other alternative? Given the amount of vendor-specific recommendations, it is all too easy to overlook basic relational database fundamentals. In this second of two parts, author Philipp K. Janert presents an introduction to database normalization and to the five Normal Forms. He also discusses other possible uses for a database in a project, for example as a repository for configurational or logging data.
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9. Relational Database Design
Many web designers understand what a database is. Some have even written queries to access a database or even designed their own database. Unfortunately, many web designers suffer from unnecessary problems and setbacks because they do not understand the basics of relational database design. This tutorial teaches the basics of relational database design.
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10. A correct approach to define relationships between tables
This post explains how to adopt a correct approach to define database relationships.
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