From the course: Learning Relational Databases

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Implement the plan

Implement the plan

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Implement the plan

- [Instructor] At this point, you've completed the initial construction documents for your database and are ready to move on to your specific relational database management system. There is still a lot of work to do before the database is up and running, however. If you return to the database development lifecycle, you'll see that we're only about halfway through the development process, with the major steps of construction, implementation and maintenance still to come, but you should have a solid blueprint in place that you can feel confident will lead to a successful database that meets the requirements originally outlined in the early requirement-gathering phase and formalized in the mission statement. Now I've said this a couple of times along the way, but it definitely is worth repeating. It's important to remember that the lifecycle isn't strictly a one-way street. Sometimes, you'll get into constructing your database objects or the DBMS and stumble upon an issue that wasn't…

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