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Beginning Database Design, Second Edition helps you ask and answer important questions about your data so that you can avoid pitfalls and get database design right the first time.
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About this book
Beginning Database Design, Second Edition 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, you’ll learn to discover and represent the details and scope of any design problem you choose to attack.
Database design is not an exact science. Many are surprised to find that problems with their databases are caused by poor design rather than by difficulties in using the database management software. Beginning Database Design, Second Edition helps you ask and answer important questions about your data so you can understand the problem you are trying to solve and create a pragmatic design capturing the essentials while leaving the door open for refinements and extension at a later stage. Solid database design principles and examples help demonstrate the consequences of simplifications and pragmatic decisions. The rationale is to try to keep a design simple, but allow room for development as situations change or resources permit.
- Provides solid design principles by which to avoid pitfalls and support changing needs
- Includes numerous examples of good and bad design decisions and their consequences
- Shows a modern method for documenting design using the Unified Modeling Language
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Database Design
Book Subtitle: From Novice to Professional
Authors: Clare Churcher
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4210-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Clare Churcher 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-4209-3Published: 29 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-4210-9Published: 08 August 2012
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXV, 252
Topics: Database Management, Data Structures and Information Theory