This chapter describes the practice of designing user views and combining user views into a complete conceptual design. After this chapter, the student should have acquired the following knowledge and skills:
Understand the motivation for view design and integration.
Analyze a form and construct an ERD to represent it.
Determine an integration strategy for a database development effort.
Perform both incremental and parallel integration approaches.
Recognize and resolve synonyms and homonyms in the view integration process.
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