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Time was, all database design books were packed with mathematics and jargon. You d be up to your neck in normal forms before you even had a chance to wade. When Michael J. Hernandez needed a database design book to teach mere mortals like himself, there were none. So he began a personal quest to learn enough to write one. And he did.
Time was, all database design books were packed with mathematics and jargon. You d be up to your neck in normal forms before you even had a chance to wade. When Michael J. Hernandez needed a database design book to teach mere mortals like himself, there were none. So he began a personal quest to learn enough to write one. And he did.
Now in its
Paperback, Second Edition, 611 pages
Published
March 3rd 2003
by Addison Wesley
(first published December 19th 1996)
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I'll have to say, I'd have to think long and hard before I would embark on designing a database. It's so much easier to just work with what you have and hassle a DBA to fix it for you.
This book does give you a very clear, factual way to go about the process of designing a database.
This book does give you a very clear, factual way to go about the process of designing a database.
Update (11/16/12): halfway through. author has spent a whole lot of time hand-holding through interview techniques, when I wanted to be hand-held through design principles. I'm also peeved that of all the fake characters I've read about, the only two females were (1) a nagging wife, and (2) an assistant named Kendra. None of the business owners, management team, database developers, etc. The upside is that it was written in 1997 and so contains some beautiful passages like:
p. 80 "He owns a compu ...more
Although this took me longer to get through than I anticipated (other things kept intervening), I'm glad I stuck with it. Although I've had a bit of formal training on databases in various classes and "webinars," most of my knowledge is from accumulated experience, and therefore not always terribly well-structured. 'Database Design for Mere Mortals' helped me restructure what I know and place it against a larger framework of design methodology. The writing is clear and concise, and well-provided
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This was very good as a hands on book. I used it for teaching. Several of the students said they liked it because it was more hands on.
I felt that it was a bit light on the theory. But it probably gets paired very well with books that are deeper in the how and why because Hernandez does a good job of explaining concepts in english. Also, there were some sections (like diagramming) that I felt that Hernandez was much better then alternatives, because instead of using the full set of UML, he uses ...more
I felt that it was a bit light on the theory. But it probably gets paired very well with books that are deeper in the how and why because Hernandez does a good job of explaining concepts in english. Also, there were some sections (like diagramming) that I felt that Hernandez was much better then alternatives, because instead of using the full set of UML, he uses ...more
If you're interested in database design...read this book.
If you're not? Well, you're probably safe not reading it.
If you're not? Well, you're probably safe not reading it.
Easy to follow
من أفضل ما تقرأ عن تصميم قواعد البيانات خصوصا ما يعرف ب
Database Modeling
أفضل جزء فى الكتاب هو ال Sheets
التى فيها المعايير التى تطبق على كل جدول وعلى العلاقات بين الجداول
كنت أود نسخة ورقية منه ستكون أسهل فى المتابعة
Database Modeling
أفضل جزء فى الكتاب هو ال Sheets
التى فيها المعايير التى تطبق على كل جدول وعلى العلاقات بين الجداول
كنت أود نسخة ورقية منه ستكون أسهل فى المتابعة
This book is written well for a computer book. By this I mean you don't fall asleep reading it. It is very imformative in what infomration is necessary to extract from interviews to begin to build your and design your database well.
I'm a non-techie and I managed to read and understand this entire book--I think that's quite a feat for a technical textbook.
for the tldr people:
Tables, tables, tables. Good table design makes for a good database!
Tables, tables, tables. Good table design makes for a good database!
Keeping this one, just in case, someday, I build or design a DB for real. For some reason.
Simple to read, practical and straightforward. ideal to start with Database Design.
I didn't finish it, it's a little over my head, but maybe I'll try again in the future.
Good basic database design book, but Database Normalization is not covered. Strange.
Nice primer written for the layman. Now if I could only put this material into practice!
Decent book for someone who doesn't want or have to live and breathe databases.
Very useful book, good textbook for the course I was taking.
Mike's a friend of mine who works at Microsoft.
Someone buy this for me!
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