Designing database from scratch

[Luis Motta Campos]

Peter Corlett wrote:
> (Note to my predecessors: an already-running database instance is not
> sufficient documentation on its own.)

  This enough was more than sufficient to make your post worth reading.
  Thanks for your wisdom!

  I also use (part of) this process.
  I start using paper and pen, and after a usually huge ammount of paper
I come up with something to build in SQL statements.

  Problems arraise when the system is too big or too complex to get
totally shown in a single sheet of paper. But this is much more a
tactical problem than a practical problem.

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Luis Motta Campos
Senior System Engineer at Segula.FR
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