Database design is the process of specifying the logical and/or physical parts of a database. The goal of database design is to make a representation of some "universe of discourse" - the types of facts, business rules and other requirements that the database is intended to model.

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How to map one column to several tables in Hibernate?

For supporting several international languages in our system, we want to store string's real content of all tables to another table 't_vocabulary', yes, this is one-to-many case in hibernate ORM, and ...
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2 unique field combination vice versa

Hello is it possible to have a combination of 2 fields vice versa ? Example: ID catID 1 58 So that we couldnt store another row as 58-1. Currently I have primary key on both fields, but it ...
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Best practice in Domain Object / Data Model to hold an order/application request and its end-product(License)

I am designing a Domain Object model for an application. Need a suggestion on a scenario. Use case Assumption : Say the user can submit an 'Application Form' requesting a permit or license for a set ...
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How do I properly design a database schema for this scenario

Suppose I owned a business that sold cars and motorcycles. I want to track data on each. My company provides a free warranty for every car, but we do not even offer warranties on motorcycles. ...
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Normalizing a Data Dictionary

I'm creating a data dictionary for an organization which pulls together fields found in many different sources and defines them. I have all the data in another Access database, but it is a relational ...
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Table aready exists when creating MySQL trigger

I get a Table 'fundingsource' already exists when attempting to create MySQL trigger: -- Trigger DDL Statements DELIMITER $$ USE `remis_sandbox`$$ DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS tr_archive_fundingsource$$ ...
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Data-centric application: separate database tables for separate organizations a good idea?

I am building an application where several organizations can register themselves and manipulate a set of enterprise tables such as list of clients, sellers, items, sale orders etc... I was wondering ...
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How should I define this Laravel Eloquent relationship?

I'm using Laravel 3. I have a scenario where a user can create any number of 'LibraryCases'. Each LibraryCase can have zero or more tags. Here's my (simplified) database schema: cases: id ...
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store the incoming messages in sorted order(as per the incoming numbers)

I am designing an app in that i am storing the incoming messages in my own created database and from this database i am displaying these messages in my application. for this i am using this code, To ...
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Storing dynamic data in NoSQL

I have scenario where I need to store unstructured data but the rest of my data is structured and relational. An example of the type of unstructured data is as explained below: User Type 1: How do ...
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Best way to store large demographic datasets

I need to store a lot of demographic data that I am collecting for my research in database. I am trying to find out what would be a good solution to store data such as this: ...
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Getting database information in Laravel Blade Template with Inner Join

This question has to do with Laravel, but also general database design as well since I am new to both. I have made a database that is like this: people id firstname lastname address yadayada ...
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Is it ever a good idea to have a record in a reference table in your database that represent “all other records”?

I have an asp.net-mvc website with a SQL Server backend. I am simplifying my situation to highlight and isolate the issue. I have 3 tables in the DB Article table (id, name, content) Location table ...
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Am I wrong in table design or wrong in selected index when made the table?

I've build web application as a tool to eliminate unnecessary data in peoples table, this application mainly to filter all data of peoples who valid to get an election rights. At first, it wasn't a ...
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Optimize multiple self-JOINs or redesign DB?

I'm looking for advice on either optimizing multiple self-joins, or a better table/DB design. One of the tables looks as follows (relevant cols only): CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS CountryData ( ...

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