Databases
Database Analogies
Collected by Yuhan Pan — Kroenke, D., & Auer, D. (2016). Database Processing Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation. 14 ed. Pearson.
Design theory and normalization
Anything else
reduce data redundancy and eliminate modification anomalies, by relating it to a familiar concept from English grammar
| Symbol | Concept |
|---|---|
| Database Table | Paragraph |
| Data "Themes" | Paragraph Themes |
| Normalisation | Reorganising/Breaking up paragraphs |
highlights the design principle of decomposition
Do you remember your eighth-grade English teacher? She said that every paragraph should have a single theme. If you write a paragraph that has two themes, you should break it up into two paragraphs, each with a single theme.
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A notional machine is a pedagogic device to assist the understanding of some aspect of programs or programming. To something along the lines of A notional machine is a pedagogical tool designed to support the understanding of programs, programming, and other aspects of computing such as databases.
