How to Design a Database

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If you’ve got an idea or requirements to create a database, and don’t know how to design it, then this is the video for you.
You can take an idea or some requirements for an application and create a database design.
In this video, I’ll explain step-by-step how you can do this, using an example. We start with a written description of what we want to do, and end up with a database design with a few tables, columns, and primary and foreign keys added.
Timestamps:
00:00 Going from an idea to a database design
00:43 Step 1 - write it down
01:44 Step 2 - find the nouns
02:13 Create tables
02:54 Step 3 - add attributes
06:13 Step 4 - add relationships
08:04 Step 5 - assess and adjust
09:15 Normalisation and next steps
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