Question Normalisation and ERDs.

[marknufc]

Is there anywhere I can get I guide or walkthrough?

 

[John Big Booty]

I have not idea what ERD stands for, but this tutorial might help on the normalisation side of things.

 

[marknufc]

Entity relationship diagram

 

[jdraw]

For erd this is a great tutorial
http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/Tutorials/Entity_Relationship.zip

These free video tutorials describe the processes of data modelling, normalization and entity relationship diagramming. There are other videos, but this group is by the same presenter and covers an example situation. The example relates Customers, Orders and Items.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiVq8M5DBkk Logical data modeling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGMwuOtRfqU Candidate key

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiB-BKCzS_I Normalization

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ47btpjAhA Normalization example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Wg2fZENK0 1st Normal form

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vji0pfliHZI 2nd Normal form

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH-QR7t-kMo 3rd Normal form

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1GaaGHHAqM E_R Diagramming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAGQ8vmhCY ERD Part 2

The first few topics at this site are well worth the read.

http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/forum/topic238.html

Good luck with your project.