Data Modeling Essentials, 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Data Analysis, Design, and Innovation / Edition 2

Data Modeling Essentials, 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Data Analysis, Design, and Innovation / Edition 2

by Graeme C. Simsion, Graham Witt
     
 

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… 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. IOverview of Data Modeling1
Ch. 1What is Data Modeling?3
Ch. 2Basic Normalization35
Ch. 3The Entity-Relationship Approach67
Ch. 4Subtypes and Supertypes111
Ch. 5Putting It All Together149
Ch. 6Organizing the Data Modeling Task175
Pt. IIAdvanced Data Modeling195
Ch. 7More About Relationships and Foreign Keys197
Ch. 8Advanced Normalization237
Ch. 9Primary Keys and Identity267
Ch. 10Attributes291
Ch. 11Time-Dependent Data327
Ch. 12Modeling Business Rules351
Ch. 13Modeling for Data Warehouses and Data Marts389
Ch. 14Corporate Data Modeling415
App. ACheck List for Data Model Review439
App. BAn Approach to Presenting Large Data Models445
Index451

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