It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as ...

I have an order table that is an order for a customer. I need to reference as a foreign key an unknown number of products that could make up the order (product_id) how do I do this? What am I missing.

Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented.