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One-to-One? or One-to-Zero-or-One?

Scenario: I am being asked to create an HR training tracker for employees of a business. in this database I am using two tables: EMPLOYEE(EMPLID, LastName, FirstName, PrimaryEmail) with EMPLID as the ...
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Database scheme design for complex movie system

I'm creating a complex app for cinemas including frontend and reservation system. I struggle with a DB scheme and this is a worst part for me, I was never good in designing DB's. Easily said it's a ...
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Weak Entities + Partial Keys + 2NF [closed]

I'm a bit confused on the concept of weak entities and normalization and couldn't find any answers online. I know that generally weak entities have a partial key to uniquely identify its own records ...
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I need to put the data from the diagram in 3NF [closed]

This is a simple list table of a company trying to keep track of employee assignment to company projects (in other words, not a database but a flat one table file). You will design a database for ...
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Orders and Quotes Tables - Database Design

Below is the ERD of my current db schema for the orders part of an e-commerce site. The site is based on oscommerce, but has been modified, also I have removed quite a few of the fields from the ...
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Modeling a product database and dealing with inheritance

So, to get better at designing databases, I'm attempting to model a database system after the AR15 Builder. Here is what I have so far: While it makes sense logically, I'm afraid there may be ...
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Survey Database - Respondent Table (1NF or 3NF - Pros and Cons)

Building out a Survey ERD ODS layer. Now i'm debating on the design for my Respondent Table. Not sure if its best to have it as 1NF or 3NF. FOr a quick back story I get a survey extract with ...
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Entity Relationship Design; The best scenario

TLDR; What would be the best design choice for the scenario below and how would each design react at extremely large data volume? I have experience working with large government database systems ...
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Can Anyone please review my database after I did the Normalization ?.Any suggestion is appreciated

User: User_ID,user_name,E-mail Staff: User_ID,Fname,Lname,DOB Student: User_ID fname Lname DOB Lecture: User_ID Admin: User_ID Position ID : P_ID,ROLE_NAME, Staff_position :Staff_position_ID,P_ID,...
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Database design for bookmark system

I am creating a bookmark system where people can save their bookmarks. Each user has its own personal page with bookmarks. A bookmark should have atleast one tag and max five. Each user can create ...
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Refactoring/normalization - but almost empty table

I normalized a legacy DB into this structure: But I'm not sure if it is correctly normalized. I don't feel very comfortable with the almost empty filters table. The requirements A group contains ...
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ERD directly producing 5NF relational schema - is this desirable?

I have been given a case study of Event Management. I have to develop an entity-relationship diagram (ERD), and based on it check if the resulting relational schema meets the different normal forms. I ...
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When to apply normalization in database design

Prior to learning about normalization I would usually read the scenario/description in the requirements and draw up an ER diagram (using Chen's notation) using nouns as entities and verbs as clues to ...
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