Creating your MySQL Database: Practical Design Tips and Techniques

A short guide for everyone on how to structure your data and set-up your MySQL database tables efficiently and easily.

Key Features

• How best to collect, name, group, and structure your data
• Design your data with future growth in mind
• Practical examples from initial ideas to final designs
• The quickest way to learn how to design good data structures for MySQL

Book Description

What you will learn

• Asking users the right questions to collect relevant data for the system you are building
• Detecting bad structures
• Sound data-naming techniques, for both table and column names
• Modeling data with future growth in mind
• Implementing security policies with data privileges and views
• Tuning the structure for performanceProducing system documentation (data dictionary, relational schema)
• Testing the model with appropriate SQL queries

Who this book is for

Anyone working with applications that use a MySQL database backend will benefit greatly from the advice and techniques in this book. Although a working knowledge of both SQL and MySQL is assumed, the book is suitable for both beginners and intermediate users alike. Whether you read it through and absorb the advice or work through it on a live project, the efficiency and maintainability of your databases will certainly improve as a result.