1. How does the database design process differ from the software design process?

2. What mechanisms can be used to map a relationship in ER to a
relational DB or an OO Model?

3. Name some of the major problems encountered when trying to find data
requirements in a natural language document.

4. Describe 1st and Boyce Codd Normal Forms.

5. Describe the problems caused by tables not in BCNF.

6. Given an object-oriented model with what approaches could you use to map a 
super class and set of subclasses to tables in a relational model.
 
7. How would you chose among the three approaches (Localize, Link and Collapse)
in translating a super type and set of subtypes to a relational model ?

8. Contrast the top down, bottom up and inside out (oil stain)
approaches to database design.

9. When merging two sub-schemas together items that store information
about the same real world things fall into three classes.  Name the
classes and how to deal with them.

10. How do Object-Relational databases complicate design problems.