Is this database structure correct? Please help oh wise ones :)
Posted by: Ajeet Chadha
Date: October 13, 2009 04:15PM

I am fairly new to mysql and wanted to practice making a database and tables. As well as filling the tables with made up data and then practicing queries. I wanted to emulate a real life database project.

So I decided to make a database for a Car Dealership.

the database consists of three tables...Car...Buyer..Repairs. The structure is displayed below.


CAR table -

car_id int(5) primary key
make varchar(15)
model varchar(15)
year int(4)
origin varchar(15)
buyer int(5) foreign key references buyer_id in the BUYER table
cost double(5,2)



BUYER table -

buyer_id int(5) primary key
name varchar(20)
address varchar(20)
tel int(10)
car_id int(5) foreign key references car_id in the CAR table


REPAIRS table-

part_id int(5) primary key
origin varchar(15)
cost double(5,2)
car_id int(5) foreign key references car_id in the CAR table




Do you see any problems in this structure?
anything I should have done differently?
anything I could do to improve database performance?

Please bare with me as I am new to this and wish to be a DBA one day soon!

All comments will be appreciated!!

Thanks people



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2009 07:02PM by Ajeet Chadha.

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