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Beginning Database Design

From Novice to Professional

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Clare Churcher
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  • Taps into the same audience as Database design for Mere Mortals

  • Is shorter and more readable than the competing book

  • Uses the latest methods (use-case driven) and diagramming notation (the UML)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. What Can Go Wrong

    Pages 1-9

  3. Guided Tour of the Development Process

    Pages 11-29

  4. Initial Requirements and Use Cases

    Pages 31-51

  5. Learning from the Data Model

    Pages 53-73

  6. Developing a Data Model

    Pages 75-93

  7. Generalization and Specialization

    Pages 95-112

  8. From Data Model to Relational Schema

    Pages 113-137

  9. Normalization

    Pages 139-156

  10. More on Keys and Constraints

    Pages 157-170

  11. Queries

    Pages 171-190

  12. User Interface

    Pages 191-204

  13. Other Implementations

    Pages 205-223

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 225-240
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About this book

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, youll learn how to discover and represent the details and scope of the problem in question.

Database design is not an exact science, and solid database design principles and examples help demonstrate the consequences of simplifications and pragmatic decisions. The rationale is to try to keep it simple, but allow room for development as situations change or resources permit. The book also features an introduction for implementing the final design in a relational database.

About the author

Clare Churcher is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Computing at Lincoln University, New Zealand. She holds a degree in physics with first class honors and completed a Ph.D in physics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has done postdoctoral research in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, England. Clare s research interests are in the management and visualization of data especially for scientific research. She has a background in database design, and has taught programming, analysis and design of information systems, and database management at undergraduate level, as well as software engineering and scientific visualization at post graduate level.

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