Database Design: Know It All

Database Design: Know It All

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by Toby J. Teorey, Stephen Buxton, Lowell Fryman, Ralf Hartmut Guting
     
 

All of the elements of data base design together in a single volume written by the best and brightest experts in the field!

Until now, information about modeling and designing your databases and database applications has been scattered across many different books. Database Design: Know It All answers the need for a single comprehensive practical

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All of the elements of data base design together in a single volume written by the best and brightest experts in the field!

Until now, information about modeling and designing your databases and database applications has been scattered across many different books. Database Design: Know It All answers the need for a single comprehensive practical reference for database designers. Assembled from the works of leading researchers and practitioners, this best-of-the-best collection delivers a wide-ranging and detailed examination of database design and modeling that no book by a single author could possibly provide.

From ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases, Database Design: Know It All combines a solid foundation with practical approaches to common structural challenges. This is the one book you will always want to have on your desk as you design databases for performance, maintainability, and administration.

  • Features contributed chapters by recognized experts in the field, keeping you up-to-date and fully informed with multiple viewpoints.
  • Details multiple relational models and modeling languages, enhancing your technical expertise and familiarity with design-related requirements specification.
  • Covers both theory and practice, bringing all of the elements of database design together in a single volume and saving you the time and expense of making multiple purchases.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780123746306
Publisher:
Elsevier Science
Publication date:
10/28/2008
Edition description:
New Edition
Pages:
368
Sales rank:
1,138,500
Product dimensions:
8.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Database Life Cycle
Chapter 2: Entity-Relationship Concepts
Chapter 3: Data Modeling in UML
Chapter 4: Requirements Analysis and Conceptual Data Modeling
Chapter 5: Logical Database Design
Chapter 6: Normalization
Chapter 7: Physical Database Design
Chapter 8: Denormalization
Chapter 9: Business Metadata Infrastructure
Chapter 10: Storing XML
Chapter 11: Modeling and Querying Current Movement

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