Database Design Tool

Database diagramming tool to easily visualize your tables

  • Multiple frameworks to create editable database design templates to design database schema
  • Simple drag and drop interface to visualize detailed database structures
  • Video conferencing & live mouse tracking to collaborate in real-time with others
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Database Design Templates

Foreign Key in ER Diagram
Foreign Key in ER Diagram
DVD Library
DVD Library
ER Diagram for College Management System
ER Diagram for College Management System
Logistic Management System ER Example
Logistic Management System ER Example
New E-R Diagram for Supplies Contract System
New E-R Diagram for Supplies Contract System
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What is a Database Design Tool?

Database design illustrates a detailed model of a database which is also known as the database schema. It shows the various tables that are in the system and the relationships between those tables.

This enables you to visualize the relationships between different entities in the system and plan your database diagram accordingly. Creately supports creating entity relationship diagrams among many other diagram types.

How to Design a Database?

  1. The first step to designing a database is identifying the purpose of the design.
  2. The next step is to gather all of the types of information you might want to record in the database.
  3. Now divide your information into major entities or subjects. Each subject becomes its own table.
  4. Now decide what information you want to store in the table. Each item becomes a field and is displayed as a column in the table.
  5. Choose each table’s primary key. The primary key is a column that is used to uniquely identify each row.
  6. Establish table relationships and decide how the data in one table is related to the data in another.

Database Design Articles

Database Model Templates to Visualize Databases
Database Model Templates to Visualize Databases

A database diagram is the very foundation of a database design and development effort. It represents the basic structure of a database; how information is stored, categorized and managed within it. The following database model templates are logical and physical...
Basics of Database Modeling with Creately
Basics of Database Modeling with Creately

At the heart of database modeling is the idea of designing a database structure that defines how stored information can be accessed, categorized and manipulated. It’s the very foundation of a database design effort, and the specific data model employed...
The Complete Guide to Design Systems
The Complete Guide to Design Systems

Design Systems Evangelist Nathan Curtis states that “a design system isn’t a project. It is a product, serving products.” Simply put, if your software products or services are your actors, then the design system is your director. A successful SaaS brand ensures that...
Ultimate Entity Relationship Diagram Tutorial (ER Diagrams)
Ultimate Entity Relationship Diagram Tutorial (ER Diagrams)

So you want to learn Entity Relationship diagrams? This ER diagram tutorial will cover their usage, history, symbols, notations and how to use our ER diagram software to draw them. We’ve also added some templates for you to get started quickly...
ER Diagram Templates to Download or Modify Online
ER Diagram Templates to Download or Modify Online

An ER diagram is a systematic way of describing and defining a business process. The process is modeled as components that are linked to each other by relationships that express the dependencies and requirements between them. The ER diagram templates below cover...