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Modeling legal guardianship
Some notes on either/or/or in logical modeling.
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Alexey Makhotkin
"Documenting your database using Minimal Modeling" [video]
Hello all, Christian has uploaded the recording of my talk from 2024-02-07: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DPQsSwflS0 (38 minutes, Q&A was not…
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Alexey Makhotkin
Designing database for Google Calendar, drafts
In the past couple of months I’ve been working on a longer text called “Database Design for Google Calendar”. It illustrates the approach from the…
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Alexey Makhotkin
Minimal Modeling: processes and deliverables
A diagram of Minimal Modeling: textual descriptions → logical model → physical database schema → logical model → narratives and diagrams.
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Alexey Makhotkin
Sentinel-free schemas: a thought experiment
We systematically design a database schema that does not use NULLs and sentinel values. We look at the consequences of this design decisions and provide…
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Alexey Makhotkin
Designing database for Google Calendar, pt. I
Here is the first post in new “Designing database for Google Calendar” series. We show how the method explained in the book works in practice, for a…
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Alexey Makhotkin
Many explanations of JOIN are wrong, and people get confused
Most common explanations of JOIN are incomplete and build the wrong mental model. As the result, people get confused. In this post we discuss the…
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Alexey Makhotkin
Book update
I'm working on a book: “Database Design with Minimal Modeling”.
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Alexey Makhotkin
Minimal Modeling
Making sense of your database.
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