After you prepare your data model, you must implement it as a database and tables. To implement your data model, you first define a domain, or set of data values, for every column. This chapter discusses the decisions that you must make to define the column data types and constraints.
The second step uses the CREATE DATABASE and CREATE TABLE statements to implement the model and populate the tables with data, as Implementing a Relational Data Model discusses.
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