While good database design is always necessary, the value of good design is reinforced by such endeavors as service-oriented architecture. The semantics-laden engineering of service-oriented tactics ...

Overview Poor schema planning creates rigid systems that fail under growing data complexityWeak indexing and duplication reduce performance and increase mainten ...

So I've been working quite a lot with MySQL lately and having quite a lot of fun with it. It's my first forray into working with databases. <br><br>I've got a pretty good handle on SQL itself ...