📅 Week 8 Assignment – Clinic Booking System

📋 Overview

Relational database schema design for a medical clinic appointment scheduling system using MySQL.
Focus: normalized data structure, data integrity, and performance.

🎯 Objectives

• Apply database normalization techniques: First Normal Form (1NF) and Second Normal Form (2NF)
• Create tables with appropriate constraints: PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY, UNIQUE, NOT NULL
• Define and enforce relationships between entities (e.g., One-to-Many)

🗃️ Schema Overview

The following tables, all normalized up to Second Normal Form (2NF), are created in the clinicDB database:

• specialties: Stores medical specialty information
• doctors: Profiles for each doctor, linked to a specialty
• patients: Patient records with personal details
• appointments: Tracks patient bookings with doctors

🔽 Visual Schema

The following diagram illustrates the structure of the Clinic Booking System:

💡 A dark version of the diagram is also available in the repository under assets/clinic-schema-dark.png.

⚙️ How to Run

1. Open MySQL Workbench or your preferred SQL client
2. Execute the clinicDB.sql script
3. The script will:
   • Create the clinicDB database
   • Create all required tables
   • Define all necessary constraints

✅ Requirements

• MySQL 8.x
• Basic understanding of SQL syntax:
  • DDL (Data Definition Language)
  • Constraints (e.g., NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY)

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
See the LICENSE file for details.

👨‍💻 Author

Augusto Mate – mate.augusto.mz@gmail.com

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