Database Designing Tools
Jun 9, 2004Hi all,
Does anyone know how I can design the database schema. I mean what tools can be used to the design the database and view the table relationships, etc. TIA.
Vik!
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Apr 5, 2004Friends,
Who is responsible for the Design of Database? System Analyst, DBA, Databse Designer, Project Leader? Coz I am working as a System Analyst, but now desgining the Databse for the ERP package which I feel is another man's work. Confussed. Plz help me.
Anil
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I have told about integrity constraints, and normal forms.
but he has added 15 more concepts like
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6.......
Can any one give full Idea on this question?
Thanking you Ashok kumar.
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Nov 22, 2005Hi,
My current project requires me to convert a mysql based software to a more generic one. I started by designing separate db class files and separated the lower level connection queries from the business logic. By doing this, I now have mssql.class, mysql.class, sqllite.class etc..
But am not sure how to handle sql functions in queries. For instance, one of my queries need the use of a date function to add minutes to a db field.
In mysql, I accomplish this using
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My frontend scripting language is php
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Feb 26, 2004Case 1:
A company is involved into e-commerce..hosting multiple websites for different products.
CAse 2:
The above scenario could also be implemented with a single site having multiple products for sale.
For Case 2 one would go for a single database for all the products.
While for CAse 1 ,a separate Database is developed for each Site.
What I fill is CAse2 is a more appropriate choice even if we have multiple sites for different products.
This would help us in rapid development of any ecommerce site...
ANd better ERP management for the Company.
I would appreciate some expert guidelines for the above scenario
Thanx in Advance
Warm Regards
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May 27, 2006Hi...
I am making a online job portal....for dat i need to make a gud database.
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Feb 18, 2008Hi All,
I am attempting to create a Visual C++ application based on displaying financial charts and am using SQL Express to store Stock information such as the Exchanges the stocks are traded on, the indicessectors they belong to and the Closing prices for as long as I can download data for. I am not proficient in C++ nor SQL and am using this project to learn both languages as well as making myself rich beyond my wildest dreams.
I have "designed" a database with the following tables:
tblDate_ 1 column clmDate (Primary Key, smalldatetime, NOT NULL)
tblStockExchange_ 4 column clmStockExchangeID (PK, int, NOT NULL)
clmParentID (int, null)
clmStockExchange (nvarchar(50), NOT NULL)
clmMarkets_ (FK, nchar(20), NOT NULL)
tblMarkets_ 1 column clmMarkets (PK, nchar(20), NOT NULL)
tblIndices_ 1 column clmIndices (PK, nchar(50), NOT NULL)
tblSectors_ 1 column clmSectors (PK, nchar(50), NOT NULL)
tblMarkets_Sectors 3 columns clmMarkets_SectorsID(PK, int, NOT NULL)
clmMarkets_ (FK, nchar(20), NOT NULL)
clmSectors_ (FK, nchar(50), NOT NULL)
tblSecurities_ 4 columns clmEPIC (PK, nchar(10), NOT NULL)
clmSecurity_Type (nchar(5), NOT NULL)
clmSecurty_Name (nchar(50), NOT NULL)
clmSectors_ (FK, nchar(50), NOT NULL)
tblSecurities_Indices 3 columns clmSecurities_IndicesID (PK, int, NOT NULL)
clmEPIC_ (FK, nchar(10), NOT NULL)
clmIndices_ (FK, nchar(50), NOT NULL)
tblSecurities_Date_OHLCV 8 columns clmOHLCVID (PK, int, NOT NULL)
clmEPIC_ (FK, nchar(10), NOT NULL)
clmDate_ (FK, smalldatetime, NOT NULL)
clmOpen (float, NOT NULL)
clmHigh (float, NOT NULL)
clmLow (float, NOT NULL)
clmClose (float, NOT NULL)
clmVolume (float, NOT NULL)
Why so many tables? perhaps you should put some more in...
This was the only way I could work out how to store one-to-one and one-to-many relationships required for:
- Many closing prices for many stocks
- Stocks belonging to many indices
- Stocks belonging to only one sector
- Stocks belonging to only one market (MainMarket or AIM for LSE)
- Stocks belonging to only one Exchange (I am aware of dual listed stocks but one thing at a time)
Why nchar's and not nvarchar's?
Because I didn't realise the benefits of nvarchar's until recently. How can I change this a loose the extra spaces in the cells.
Why do some tables have IDs and others don't?
I decided to put ID columns in for tables that didn't have obvious Primary Keys - if someone could explain the advantages if ID columns I would be grateful.
To the SQL Professional's eye there will be some obvious things wrong with this design and your criticism is welcome. The database I have is achieving what I would like it to do; I can plot charts using the data but I have ran into problems when trying to create a TreeView control which is what I would like to use as a navigational tool in my application.
It would seem that pulling hierarchal data from a relational database, to pass to the TreeView control, is a tricky task to say the least. I have found many articles online which discuss how to do this (using an Adjacency List Model or Nested Set Model) but they define a fairly simple example at the beginning (based on fruit or electrical goods) but don't appear to talk about gathering data from an existing relational database or changing an existing relational database so that it is more suited to storing hierarchal information. I have Joe Celko's - Tree and Hierachies in SQL for Smarties but sadly this fine material is a little beyond me!
I would like the hierarchy to look like this:
StockExchange
Market
Sector
Stock
Indices
Sector
Stock
I have written three queries to get the StockExchangeMarketSectorStock information individually from each table but am struggling with ways to put all the rows together, add left and right values (Nested Set Model) then run queries against this to get individual nodes to pass to the TreeView control. Therefore is there something I need to add to the original design?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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So I started an SQL CE database for use inside a mobile application. I used SSMS to create a .sdf file (because if I let Visual Studio do it, SSMS can't open it because it will be version 3.5).
The reason I wanted to use SSMS is because I wanted to be able to design the database in design view, and populate it with initial information for the application to use. That means adding tables and rows.
The problem is, SSMS doesn't seem to have a design view available when working with CE databases. It also doesn't seem to have a feature for adding rows into tables. It's essentially as useless as VS2008 for designing my mobile database. It only lets me add tables, and I can't even do that visually in design view. I have to use those cumbersome forms.
Is there any way to design a CE database in design view? And add rows of data into tables? It feels like I'm overlooking something.
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