Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Diagrams [NOOK Book]

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"This comprehensive guide clarifies ER diagramming by defining it in terms of requirements (end user requests) and specifications (designer feedback to those requests). This book explains how open communication between designers and end users is critical to developing usable, easy-to-understand ER diagrams that model both requirements and specifications." The authors examine, in an intuitive, informal manner, how to develop an ER diagram, how to map it to a database, and how the resulting database can be tested. This definitive volume is a basic
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Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Diagrams

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"This comprehensive guide clarifies ER diagramming by defining it in terms of requirements (end user requests) and specifications (designer feedback to those requests). This book explains how open communication between designers and end users is critical to developing usable, easy-to-understand ER diagrams that model both requirements and specifications." The authors examine, in an intuitive, informal manner, how to develop an ER diagram, how to map it to a database, and how the resulting database can be tested. This definitive volume is a basic component for any database course, and is also an invaluable reference that database professionals can use throughout their careers.
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Dr. Sikha Saha Bagui is an associate professor and interim associate chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida. She teaches a variety of computer science and database courses, and her research areas of concentration are database design, web databases, data mining and statistical computing. Dr. Bagui has published many journal articles and co-authored several books with Dr. Earp.

Dr. Richard Walsh Earp, Professor Emeritus, is a former chair of and former associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and former dean of the College of Science and Technology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. Dr. Earp was also an instructor with Learning Tree International and worked for Computer Sciences Corporation at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola as a database consultant after his retirement from academia. He has co-authored several books with Dr. Bagui.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Software Engineering Process and Relational Databases 1
2 The Basic ER Diagram: A Data Modeling Schema 23
3 Beyond the First Entity Diagram 53
4 Extending Relationships/Structural Constraints 73
5 The Weak Entity 115
6 Further Extensions for ER Diagrams with Binary Relationships 133
7 Ternary and Higher-Order ER Diagrams 165
8 Generalizations and Specializations 187
9 Relational Mapping and Reverse-Engineering ER Diagrams 205
10 A Brief Overview of the Barker/Oracle-Like Model 219
Glossary 233
Index 237
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