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Relational Database Design: Clearly Explained, 2nd Edition | Jan L. Harrington
Morgan Kaufmann, Paperback, 2nd edition, Published April 2002, 393 pages, ISBN 1558608206 | List Price: $54.95
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Fully revised and updated, Relational Database Design, Second Edition is the most
lucid and effective introduction to relational database design available. Here,
you'll find the conceptual and practical information you need to develop a design
that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance,
regardless of your experience level or choice of DBMS.
Supporting the book's step-by-step instruction are three case studies illustrating
the planning, analysis, and design steps involved in arriving at a sound design.
These real-world examples include object-relational design techniques, which
are addressed in greater detail in a new chapter devoted entirely to this timely
subject.
Coverage Includes
Concepts you need to master to put the book's practical instruction to work.
Methods for tailoring your design to the environment in which the database will
run and the uses to which it will be put.
Design approaches that ensure data accuracy and consistency.
Examples of how design can inhibit or boost database application performance.
Object-relational design techniques, benefits, and examples.
Instructions on how to choose and use a normalization technique.
Guidelines for understanding and applying Codd's rules.
Tools to implement a relational design using SQL.
Techniques for using CASE tools for database design.
Authors:
Jan L. Harrington, the author of 30 books, including SQL, Clearly Explained
(Academic Press), has been writing about databases since 1984. She is a professor
and chair of the department of computer science and information systems at Marist
College, where she teaches database design and management, object-oriented programming,
data communications, and computer architecture.
Table of Contents:
The Full Table of Contents in PDF
Preface to the Second Edition
Part One: Theory
Chapter 1: Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 2: Introduction
Chapter 3: Entities and Data Relationships
Chapter 4: Historical Antecedents
Chapter 5: The Relational Data Model
Chapter 6: Normalization
Chapter 7: Database Structure and Performance Tuning
Chapter 8: Codd’s Rules
Chapter 9: Integrating Objects
Part Two: Practice
Chapter 10: Using SQL to Implement a Relational Design
Chapter 11: Using CASE Tools for Database Design
Chapter 12: Database Design Case Study #1: Mighty-Mite Motors
Chapter 13: Database Design Case Study #2: East Coast Aquarium
Chapter 14: Database Design Case Study #3: Independent Intelligence Agency
Glossary
Index
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Aug 15, 2003 Davi Abdallah from Mountain View, CA, US
Awesome way to discover the Relational Data Model
Today, I am a Business Processes Specialist, my educational background started with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration. By the end of the Business Program I discovered my passion for Business Processes Applied Software Development. Relational Database Design Clearly Explained helped me to understand the concepts behind the Relational Data Model and the application of these concepts into The Real World. The beauty of the contest of this Master Piece is that it discusses the foundations of the relational data model apart from any software package. Understanding the Relational Data Model helped me to apply this concept into my real world problems and later to fit the design of my solutions into any Relational Database Management System.
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