JeevesBond — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:49:29 +0000

Wow, it's great that it worked. I always hate doing theory that doesn't help with the practice (if you see what I mean).

benf wrote: Thanks for the help. That link really helped me.

No problem, glad to be of help.

benf — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:06:58 +0000

Done a nice normalization up to 3rd normal form and an entity ERD diagram and it actually proved me wrong about my design - it is worth it after all.

Thanks for the help. That link really helped me.

JeevesBond — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:31:36 +0000

benf wrote: i suspected that ERD and normalisation would be enough, perhaps a description of the why i chose certain fields.

Cool! Glad to hear it. Good luck with the assignment.

Yes i suspected

benf — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:24:30 +0000

Thanks jeeves, i suspected that ERD and normalisation would be enough, perhaps a description of the why i chose certain fields.

JeevesBond — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:45:04 +0000

benf wrote: The first that springs to mind is SSADM however it seems rather much for my simple CMS.

Yes, that seems a little too involved! Particularly if that's part of a larger project, there would be a lot of overlap with other documentation. I usually use Entity-Relationship diagrams (the crows feet notation), they're usually enough for me. Here's another good example.

As this is a college project they probably want more. Can you use normalisation here at all? Am not sure how you would write down a proof that an entity is normalised, you could perhaps use the normal forms as checkpoints: 'the entity is in first normal form because...'

Sorry I can't be of more help, it's a while since I was in College.