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The essay is a wake up call and provocative (BUT not offensive and not insulting),
thought-provoking, challenging, simulating, inspiring, interesting, and motivating.
Introduce the topic to general audience but has enough for making it interesting to
specialized group in the field
Pick on debatable, controversial, and arguable issues
Propose new ideas for research and practices
Encourage reader to think (special) & to respond or reply.
Mostly, there are no references (a few (one or two) is fine.)
List for Ideas for essays:
Software Stability in Any Database Modeling
Transition to a New Database Technology
Problem Partition in Database Design
Problem Understanding in Database Design
Pattern Languages for any Database Type
Role of database in Dynamic Analysis
Model-Based Architectures for Database Models
Business Issues: The impact of database on:
Business Rules
Business Models
Business Patterns
Business Standards
Business Transformation
Business Strategy Models
Business Optimization
Business Process Design
Enduring Business Processes
Business Security and Privacy
Service-Oriented Architectures
Business Standards for Extended Enterprise
Information Integration
Framelets role in database design
Patterns: Utilizing patterns in Database Design
Stable Analysis Patterns
Stable Design Patterns
Stable Architectural Patterns
Systems of Patterns
Pattern Languages
Stable Testing Patterns
Timeless Architectures
Quality Factors in Database Design:
Reusability
Extensibility
Maintainability
Testability
Adaptability
Scalability
Safety
Reliability
Resilience
Understandability
Complexity
Portability
Usability
Efficiency
Learnability
Etc.
Knowledge Maps for
Constraints Databases
Spatiotemporal Databases
Transaction Management
Spatial Database
Temporal Database
Relational Database
Object Database
Distributed Database
Data Animation
Data Visualization
Data Mining
Data Farming
Data Warehousing
Generate one of the following patterns
ATOMICITY: a transaction should be done or undone completely. In the event of an error or
failure, all data manipulations should be undone, and all data should rollback to its previous
state.
CONSISTENCY: a transaction should transform a system from one consistent state to
another consistent state.
ISOLATION: each transaction should happen independently of other transactions occurring
at the same time.
DURABILITY: Completed transactions should remain stable/permanent, even during system
failure.
Normalization
Normalization is the process of organizing data to minimize redundancy and remove
ambiguity. Normalization involves separating a database into tables and defining
relationships between the tables. There are three main stages of normalization called normal
forms. Each one of those stages increases the level of normalization. The 3 main normal
forms are as follows:
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First Normal Form (1NF): Each field in a table must contain different information.
Second Normal Form (2NF): All attributes that are not dependent upon the primary
key in a database table must be eliminated.
Third Normal Form (3NF): No duplicate information is permitted. So, for example, if
two tables both require a common field, this common field information should be
separated into a different table.
There are 2 more normalization forms, fourth normal form (4NF) and fifth normal form (5NF),
but they are rarely used. Normalization makes databases more efficient and easier to
maintain.
Query
Queries are the main way to make a request for information from a database. Queries
consist of questions presented to the database in a predefined format, in most cases SQL
(Structured Query Language) format.
Transaction
Transaction is a group of SQL database commands regarded and executed as a single
atomic entity.
Trigger
Triggers are special type of stored procedures executed automatically when certain events
take place. There are different types of triggers – for update, for insert and for delete. Each
trigger is associated with a single database table.
Catalog
In computing, a catalog is a directory of information about data sets, files, or a database.
A catalog usually describes where a data set, file or database entity is located and may
also include other information, such as the type of device on which each data set or file is
stored.