作者：Clare Churcher
出版日期：January 15, 2007
出版社：Apress
页数：300
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1590597699 ISBN-13: 978-1590597699
文件格式：PDF


Product Description
Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professionalprovides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database designright the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help youavoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new databasedesigners. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled inthe UML, youll learn how to discover and represent the details andscope of the problem in question.
Database design is not an exact science, and solid database designprinciples and examples help demonstrate the consequences ofsimplifications and pragmatic decisions. The rationale is to try tokeep it simple, but allow room for development as situations change orresources permit. The book also features an introduction forimplementing the final design in a relational database.
About the Author
Clare Churcher holds a Ph.D. in physics and has designed severaldatabases for a variety of large and small projects. She is currentlythe head of the applied computing group at Lincoln University where herteaching has included analysis and design, database, and programming.She has supervised over 70 undergraduate projects designing databasesfor small projects.