Data Modeling Essentials, 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Data Analysis, Design, and Innovation / Edition 2
by Graeme C. Simsion, Graham WittWritten by leading practitioners, this guide to data analysis, design and innovation is a tutorial and reference for systems analysts, business analysts, specialist data modelers, database designers, and students requiring a practical understanding of a project. It includes many practical examples to illustrate choices available to modelers and criteria for… See more details below
Overview
Written by leading practitioners, this guide to data analysis, design and innovation is a tutorial and reference for systems analysts, business analysts, specialist data modelers, database designers, and students requiring a practical understanding of a project. It includes many practical examples to illustrate choices available to modelers and criteria for selecting the best model. The book explores the difference between modeling business data requirements and designing and maintaining the resulting database, including the impact of universal server and data distribution. A revision of the first successful edition published by Coriolis in 1994, this book contains numerous updates and additional chapters to illustrate real world data modeling for commercial information systems.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9781576108727
- Publisher:
- Coriolis Group
- Publication date:
- 12/01/2000
- Edition description:
- 2ND
- Pages:
- 480
- Product dimensions:
- 7.39(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.16(d)
Table of Contents
Pt. I | Overview of Data Modeling | 1 |
Ch. 1 | What is Data Modeling? | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Basic Normalization | 35 |
Ch. 3 | The Entity-Relationship Approach | 67 |
Ch. 4 | Subtypes and Supertypes | 111 |
Ch. 5 | Putting It All Together | 149 |
Ch. 6 | Organizing the Data Modeling Task | 175 |
Pt. II | Advanced Data Modeling | 195 |
Ch. 7 | More About Relationships and Foreign Keys | 197 |
Ch. 8 | Advanced Normalization | 237 |
Ch. 9 | Primary Keys and Identity | 267 |
Ch. 10 | Attributes | 291 |
Ch. 11 | Time-Dependent Data | 327 |
Ch. 12 | Modeling Business Rules | 351 |
Ch. 13 | Modeling for Data Warehouses and Data Marts | 389 |
Ch. 14 | Corporate Data Modeling | 415 |
App. A | Check List for Data Model Review | 439 |
App. B | An Approach to Presenting Large Data Models | 445 |
Index | 451 |
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