Labels:book | box | bulletin board | crt screen | earth | hakham | laptop | plaything | poster | sky | windowpane OCR: DATABASES 633 SECTION Database Design THE KEY to an effective database its initial design. In a well -designed database data can be flexibly manipulated to produce timely, meaningful, and accurate information for decision making. Bad database design can lead to messy databases, lost records, and inaccurate data. The goal of good database design is to store information so that it is easy to access and maintain but concise enough to take up as little disk space as possi- ble Section c looks at databases from the perspective of the database designer and describes how to create an efficient structure for relational database You can apply many of these design principles when you create your own databases DEFINING FIELDS How does database designer know what data to store? The term database struc ...
