Author: Shantanu Kher

Oracle Database Developer and Designer

Serving Delicious Food (and Data) – A Data Model for Restaurants

What part does database design play in running a restaurant? What might the data model for a restaurant database look like? Find out in this article. A restaurant serves people with ready-made food. This is a type of business that is thriving all over the world, and often with a lot of flare. People feel very comfortable going to restaurants, and they are starting to expect a wide range of options when it comes to their next meal.

How to Design a Localization-Ready System

In this era of globalization, companies – including software developers – are always interested in expanding to new markets. This often means localizing their products for different areas. In this article, we’ll explain a few approaches to designing your data model for localization – specifically, for managing content in multiple languages. What Is Localization? Localization is the process of adapting a product to various markets. It is a prominent factor in achieving maximum market share in terms of product sales.

Viewing Holidays With Data Modeler’s Eyes

Celebration!! Family time!! Long drive!! A day at the beach!! All these words buzz into our minds when we think of holidays. Have you ever considered how a multinational company keeps track of holidays across the globe? There must be a data dictionary to maintain all these details so that they can ensure seamless business with their local partners. This article will explain such a data model. The Project Requirements in a Nutshell I have quite simple and straightforward requirements this time.

Creating a Data Model for Carpooling

Nowadays, carpooling is accepted and promoted by people around the globe. It certainly reduces one’s personal carbon footprint, and it can be more cost-effective than renting or buying a car. Carpooling also takes a lot of work – organizational work that can readily be done by a well-designed database. This article explains a detailed data model that a carpooling website could use. Data Design, Meet Carpooling So, we need to design a data model for a ride-share (aka carpooling) website.

Renting out Cars Is as Simple as Driving: A Data Model for a Car Rental Company

You might have rented a car on your last vacation. You reserved your car online, and then picked it up from its designated location after paying all the previously-agreed charges. Once you were done, you returned it to the agency and perhaps paid some additional fees. Did you ever think about the system that makes all these things happen? In this article, we’ll look at a data model for a car rental system.

Database Model for a Messaging System

People love to communicate. We often joke that any software system always evolves into a messaging system. This article will explain the system requirements and step by step approach to design a data model for a messaging system. Requirements in Nutshell The core functionality of a messaging system in an application is to send notifications/messages to a user or a set of users. Our system also allows one to send messages to a user group.

Defining Identifying and Non-Identifying Relationships in Vertabelo

Various data modeling tools allow modelers to define relationships in a data-model as identifying or non-identifying. We can define a relationship as identifying or non-identifying in Vertabelo as well. This article will explain the way to do so. Introduction Before moving ahead with the article, I’d like to explain what identifying or non-identifying mean. Let’s take a real time example of a book storing system. In the system, a book belongs to an owner, and an owner can own multiple books.

Database Model for a Driving School’s Reservation System. Part 2

Let’s build further changes into the data model, which I created in my earlier blog post, such as having an automated approach to assigning an instructor and vehicle to a lesson, invoicing to customers and tracking of them. First off, I need to build logic on the application side to assign an instructor and vehicle to lessons before they actually take place. The main thing to ensure here is availability, i.

Database Model for a Driving School’s Reservation System. Part 1

I need to design a data model for a reservation system for a driving school. The subject area looks quite straightforward, but complexities are still involved. You have to track all requests from clients and keep track of resources (vehicle, time and instructor) consumed during lessons. Introduction I like to use a domain driven approach for designing a data model. It makes me put technology obsession aside and concentrate primarily on modeling the subject area revolving around its associated entities and relationships amongst themselves.

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