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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, youll 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
What youll learn
  • Avoid the most common pitfalls in database design.
  • Create clear use cases from project requirements.
  • Design a data model to support the use cases.
  • Apply generalization and specialization appropriately.
  • Secure future flexibility through a normalized design.
  • Ensure integrity through relationships, keys, and constraints.
  • Successfully implement your data model as a relational schema.
Who this book is for

Beginning Database Design, Second Edition is aimed at desktop power users, developers, database administrators, and others who are charged with caring for data and storing it in ways that preserve its meaning and integrity. Desktop users will appreciate the coverage of Excel as a plausible database for research systems and lab environments. Developers and database designers will find insight from the clear discussions of design approaches and their pitfalls and benefits. All readers will benefit from learning a modern notation for documenting designs that is based upon the widely used and accepted Universal Modeling Language.

Table of Contents
  1. What Can Go Wrong?
  2. Guided Tour of the Development Process
  3. Initial Requirements and Use Cases
  4. Learning from the Data Model
  5. Developing a Data Model
  6. Generalization and Specialization
  7. From Data Model to Relational Schema
  8. Normalization
  9. More on Keys and Constraints
  10. Queries
  11. User Interface
  12. Other Implementations

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Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional

Copyright 2012 by Clare Churcher

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Foreword

When I wrote the foreword to the first edition of Beginning Database Design, I expressed my hopes to see this book become a popular classic. I felt that it deserved to be so. As the technical reviewer, I had thoroughly enjoyed Clares skill in turning a subject that is often presented dryly into a vivid and interesting book, and her skill in dissecting the thought process that lets you go from functional requirements to the design of a database that will be able to keep data consistent, grow, and bear the load. Beginning Database Design doesnt enunciate, like so many books, quasidivine rules with pretentious jargon. It explains the goals, the common mistakes, why they are mistakes, and what you should do instead. It brings to light the logic behind the rules, all in a short and very readable book.

There is much satisfaction in seeing five years later that my hopes have been fulfilled, and that Beginning Database Design has become one of the leading titles on this important topicdatabases are everywhere and database design belongs to the core body of knowledge of any serious software developer. This edition has retained all the qualities that made the first one successful, including Clares lucid writing and humor, and if the page count has increased it has mostly been to include exercises allowing readers to test their understanding and compare their solutions to the answers that are provided. As the technical reviewer once again, I was in a privileged position to witness the small improvementsthere wasnt that much to improvethat Clare has brought to her book, clarifying a sentence here, improving an example there. There is a great quote by Saint-Exupry, the author of

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