Database Technologies and Applications

The readings for this week, aside from the Wikipedia entry on Databases contained too much technical jargon for me to really be able to write a comprehensive report or reflection on the material. Instead here is my attempt at explaining some terms the readings mentioned:


Entity Relationship Model : A model which shows relationships between items in a database, usually displayed in a graphical manner connection words such as nouns and verbs


Database Normalization*: Making sure there is no overlap in data within a database, the need to assign unique identifiers for each piece of information in order to make that information easier to search.
*The link we were given did not work at the time I was working on the assignment so I researched the topic and here is a helpful link I found -
http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/wrox-beginning-php-4-chapter-3-2.html