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{{Short description|Designing how data is held in a database}} '''Database design''' is the organization of data according to a [[database model]]. The designer determines what data must be stored and how the data elements interrelate. With this information, they can begin to fit the data to the database model.<ref name="Teorey, T.J. 2009">Teorey, T.J., Lightstone, S.S., et al., (2009). Database Design: Know it all.1st ed. Burlington, MA.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers</ref> A database management system manages the data accordingly. Database design is a process that consists of several steps.
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