The scenario
Designing a database for a small business to track IT assets (hardware/software) and their maintenance, assigning them to employees across departments.
What is in this drawing
Read the decisions behind it.
01
Used mandatory FK relationships to ensure every asset is assigned and every maintenance record linked to an asset and employee.
02
Included Department entity to group employees.
03
Modeled MaintenanceRecord as a separate entity to log multiple maintenance events per asset.
When building an IT inventory system that requires asset assignment, maintenance logging, and employee organization.
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