CAPTIONS AVAILABLE - Full transcript (with some screenshots) available for a small fee at http://stores.lulu.com/konagora/. I guess I see too many poorly designed databases ... This is a simple example to show you, in practice (no theory at all) the issues one can meet when designing a database. If you need a short but good book on the topic, I can recommend Clare Churcher's "Beginning Database Design" (Apress), for which I was the technical reviewer.