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Creating your MySQL Database: Practical Design Tips and Techniques
Marc Delisle

Creating your MySQL Database: Practical Design Tips and Techniques

Copyright 2006 Packt Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

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First published: November 2006

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Credits

Author

Marc Delisle

Reviewer

Rudy Limeback

Development Editor

Louay Fatoohi

Assistant Development Editor

Nikhil Bangera

Technical Editor

Mithil Kulkarni

Editorial Manager

Dipali Chittar

Project Manager

Patricia Weir

Indexer

Bhushan Pangaonkar

Proofreader

Martin Brooks

Layouts and Illustrations

Shantanu Zagade

Cover Designer

Shantanu Zagade

About the Author

Marc Delisle is a member of the MySQL Developers Guild, which regroups community developersbecause of his involvement with phpMyAdmin. He started to contribute to this popular MySQL web interface in December 1998, when he made the first multi-language version. He has been actively involved with the phpMyAdmin project since May 2001 as a developer and project administrator.

He has worked since 1980 at Collge de Sherbrooke, Qubec, Canada, as an application programmer and network manager. He has also been teaching networking, security, Linux servers, and PHP/MySQL application development.

I would like to thank the whole Packt team for their support, especially Louay Fatoohi and Nikhil Bangera; their advice helped shaping this book. My thanks also go to Rudy Limeback for his insight.

The developers of the MySQL software have earned my respect; may they find here my warm gratitude for their excellent product.

I hope that this book will assist readers into building effective data structures.

To Carole, Andr, Corinne, Annie, and Guillaume, with all my love.

About the Reviewer

Rudy Limeback is an SQL Consultant with close to 20 years of experience using SQL in one database system or another. He is located in Toronto, Canada but, thanks to the miracle that is the Internet, consults for clients all over the wide world.More information on SQL and Web development can be found on Rudy's website, http://www.r937.com/.

Chapter 0. Preface

MySQL, launched in 1995, has become the most popular open source database system. The popularity of MySQL and phpMyAdmin has allowed many non-IT specialists to build dynamic websites with a MySQL backend. This book is a short but complete guide showing beginners how to design good data structures for MySQL. It teaches how to plan the data structure and how to implement it physically using MySQL's model.

What This Book Covers

introduces the concept of MySQL, and discusses MySQL's growing popularity and its impact as a powerful tool. This chapter gives us a brief overview of the relational models and Codd's rules, which are required for designing purposes. A brief introduction to our case study"car dealer" is provided at the end.

shows how to deal with the raw data information that comes from the users or other sources, and the techniques that can help us build a comprehensive data collection. Also, this chapter covers the exact limits of the analyzed system, how one should gather documents, and interview activities for our case study.

emphasises on transforming the data elements gathered in the collection process into a cohesive set of column names. The concept of data naming is also discussed in this chapter.

provides the technique of grouping column names into tables. Rules for table layout, the concepts such as primary key, unique key, data redundancy, and data dependency are covered in this chapter.

presents various techniques for improving our data structure in terms of security, performance, and documentation. The final data structure for the car dealer's case study is provided at the end.

covers a supplemental case study about an airline system. This case study involves various steps such as gathering documents, preparing preliminary list of data elements, preparing a list of tables, sample values, and queries for the airline system.

What You Need for This Book

Basic knowledge of SQL is required. Emphasis is made on the phpMyAdmin web-based interface for reproducing the examples, although the "mysql" command-line tool can be used. No knowledge of MySQL server administration or any specific operating system is required.

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

There are three styles for code. Code words in text are shown as follows: "In this case, we can add employee information, the employee code to the car_event table".

A block of code will be set as follows:

CREATE TABLE `event` (`code` int(11) NOT NULL,`description` char(40) NOT NULL,PRIMARY KEY (`code`)) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;INSERT INTO `event` VALUES (1, 'washed');

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items will be made bold:

CREATE TABLE `event` (`code` int(11) NOT NULL,`description` char(40) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`code`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;INSERT INTO `event` VALUES (1, 'washed');

New terms and important words are introduced in a bold-type font. Words that you see on the screen, in menus, or dialog boxes for example, appear in our text like this: "It becomes impossible to link this "column" (for example the special paint color ) to a lookup table".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Note

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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