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Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional
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 and class diagrams modeled in the UML, youll learn how to discover and rep
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Paperback, 240 pages
Published
February 1st 2007
by Apress
(first published January 1st 2007)
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As boring as this topic/book can be to get through at times, the content and delivery is well thought out and greatly helped me establish a stronger understanding of relational databases and SQL. This book has been very useful, not only in projects I am currently working on in my professional and personal lives, but for projects I plan to undertake in the future. I feel confident that this material will help me dissect future problems to establish a well-balanced data model as well as a thorough
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This may be the most important (to me) technical book that I have ever read.
The book focuses on practical relational database design rather than theory. It starts from use case, progresses through data model and finally reaches data table design. The examples are vivid. As a programmer I strongly recommend it to both the junior and the experienced.
I just measured my dead-tree tech shelf -it's ~5 linear feet of programming books, 700-page O'Reilly tomes on Python, Perl, LAMPP stacks. This slim volume is packed with more tech punch than half of them. Its platform-agnostic approach succinctly explains *how* to approach the primary problems you'll encounter when faced with a messy spreadsheet you need to transform into a clean, maintainable database. Personally, it's even better because I work on scientific databases, the author's forte; usua
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This is a great intro book on DataBase management, it really lays down a good foundation so that one can easily understand higher level concepts.
Good solid review of the basics, gave me what I needed.
Right on the spot. Good, consistent information. Slightly slow pace due to abundant examples.
Libro de Consulta en ingles, muy bien explicado y creo que se quedara muchisimo tiempo en mis estanterias
Very good and easy going little book for such a tough subject.
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