DATABASE DEVELOPMENT
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Customers often do a good job of describing the things they work with, but a poor job of describing the relationships between those things. As a result, during the development process, your initial Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) may have all the entities correct, but the relationship lines are probably overly simplistic. When you frame the problem in this light, two solutions become clear: 1) do a better job of getting the relationships right before beginning development, or 2) make it easier to change relationships on-the-fly. Number 1 isn't possible, but fortunately, number 2 is. Find out more.
Technical editor Jonathan Stark is an author and instructor who specializes in FileMaker/PHP Web applications for creative professionals. Past clients include Staples, Turner Broadcasting, and Ambrosi (now Schawk). He has spoken at the FileMaker Developers Conference, has had numerous articles published in FileMaker Advisor and php|architect magazines, and is the author of the book Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9 available from SAMS Publishing. Jonathan is reluctant to admit that he began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80. http://jonathanstark.com
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