Developing databases
Chapter 1, Background Concepts, defined databases and their types. You learned how to create data models and add tables to those models.
During database development, you will be expected to work with or upgrade existing databases. There are chances that these databases would have been developed without modeling or proper planning. To understand how you can cope in such situations, in this chapter, you will create the physical database and use reverse engineering to generate an EER diagram and model. Often, reverse engineering is used when you are required to work on an existing database that is not documented.
However, when you develop a new system, you should take a bottom-up approach, beginning with the analysis and modeling. Then, you should design EERD and the database after which you should develop your applications.
In this chapter, you will begin using the MySQL Workbench GUI to create a new database. Additionally, you will create and populate a...
