Electrical characteristics of design implementations are becoming more relevant as feature sizes decrease. You must clearly state product requirements and correctly translate them into a format that ...

The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical ...

Artnet's Price Database is the world's most comprehensive record of art sales, with over 18 million auction results for fine art, design, and decorative artworks. Every piece of data we hold is ...

Constraints are especially important in hierarchical design, where good block constraints improve your ability to implement the blocks separately and then achieve overall timing closure efficiently.

When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I ...

So, it is a good physical database design practice to implement referential integrity using database constraints. Ignoring the relationships does not eliminate the business requirement. Proper ...

Description Data models and database design. Modeling the real world: structures, constraints, and operations. The entity relationship to data modeling (including network hierarchical and ...

This article presents a discussion on enums, what they are and why they are useful and the design constraints when using enums in applications and how to implement a type-safe enum pattern with ...

I started out in Database Design early in my application development career. I still remember being issued with an official IBM stencil for drawing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). Change ...