Those who have supreme skill, use strategy to bend others without coming to conflict.

-Sun Tzu          

Successfully designing databases for deployment over the World Wide Web not only requires a fundamental understanding of relational databases and their design, but also how other technologies will impact that design. Design decisions can no longer be based solely upon the results of traditional methodologies such as normalization. Often, the designer must take in consideration issues such as bandwidth, display of mixed media, and even adding a field specifically as a workaround to an inherent limitation within that infrastructure we call the Internet. In effect, the complex nature of designing databases specifically for the web has created a specialization within the category of database design. Database design specifically for the web is a key consulting services that I offer through Data Key Design.

Fernando Roldan