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Tutorial on "How to Understand a Database Schema" - Slide 1 - Introduction

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  1. What you will learn
    • How to understand a Database Schema.

  2. We will cover these Topics :-
      1. Primary and Foreign Keys.
      2. One-to-Many and Many-to-Many Relationships
      3. Inheritance
      4. "Rabbit's Ears", (Recursive relationships).

  3. The Scope
    • Customers and Orders at Starbucks and at Amazon.com.

  4. The Diagrams
    • Diagrams in this Tutorial follow common conventions in Data Modelling.
    • They are produced by a Data Modelling Tool called Dezign.


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