In the advanced case of database tables that are split up into different volumes depending on the value of the primary key, called horizontal sharding, you also have to consider how the primary ...

I'm adding a table and subclass table to my DB. (Subclass table = table where the primary key joins to the primary key of another table, to give extra row information to some subset of the rows ...

Under far too many circumstances, those responsible for modeling data are ignoring the above perspective on primary keys and are simply defining surrogate keys for everything in their data model. One ...