Beginning Database Design

• Main Author: Churcher, Clare (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

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...

Table of Contents:

• What Can Go Wrong
• Guided Tour of the Development Process
• Initial Requirements and Use Cases
• Learning from the Data Model
• Developing a Data Model
• Generalization and Specialization
• From Data Model to Relational Schema
• Normalization
• More on Keys and Constraints
• Queries
• User Interface
• Other Implementations.