Relational Database Design Clearly Explained

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.

• 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.

Auteur

Jan L. Harrington, author of more than 35 books on a variety of technical subjects, has been writing about databases since 1984. She retired in 2013 from her position as professor and chair of the Department of Computing Technology at Marist College, where she taught database design and management, data communications, computer architecture, and the impact of technology on society for 25 years.

Contenu

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