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Option A is the right answer. When designing a database the first step is to clearly define the purpose of database. What are the primary goals you want to achieve by building a database for a specific purpose. There are various methods of defining core purpose of database design.

Explanation:

As we understand defining purpose of database is the first step in database development, followed by series of steps to accomplish a database for required purpose.Requirement analysis/ elicitation defines the purpose of a database.Requirement analysis help us finding and organizing the information required i.e. purpose-the foremost step, to build a database.Gather the required information and group/ divide that information into tables.Select the unique identifier in each table to make it primary key.Set up and specify table relationships i.e one-to-one, one-to-many etc.

Answer details  

Grade: College

Subject: Computers and Technology

Chapter: Database Design

Keywords: designing database, relations in database, primary key etc