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Database Design
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Logical Database Design

Logical database design helps you define and communicate your business’ information requirements. When you create a logical database design you describe each piece of information that you need to track and the relationships among, or the business rules that govern, those pieces of information.

Once you create a logical database design, you can verify with users and management that the design is complete (that is, it contains all of the data that must be tracked) and it is accurate (that is, it reflects the correct table relationships and enforces the business rules).

Creating a logical data design is an information-gathering, iterative process. It includes these steps:

At this stage, you do not consider processing requirements, performance, or hardware constraints.


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