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Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, youll learn how to discover and represent the details and scope of the problem in question.
Database design is not an exact science, and solid database design principles and examples help demonstrate the consequences of simplifications and pragmatic decisions. The rationale is to try to keep it simple, but allow room for development as situations change or resources permit. The book also features an introduction for implementing the final design in a relational database.
About the Author
Clare Churcher holds a Ph.D. in physics and has designed several
databases for a variety of large and small projects. She is currently the
head of the applied computing group at Lincoln University where her
teaching has included analysis and design, database, and programming. She
has supervised over 70 undergraduate projects designing databases for small
projects.
databases for a variety of large and small projects. She is currently the
head of the applied computing group at Lincoln University where her
teaching has included analysis and design, database, and programming. She
has supervised over 70 undergraduate projects designing databases for small
projects.
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56 of 60 people found the following review helpful
The Best Introductory Database Design Book I Could Find
18 Jun 2007
Format:Paperback
While having many years of object-oriented design and programming experience, until recently I had no experience in designing or implementing relational databases. I learn by reading so I picked up several of the top-rated books on the subject. I found Clare Churcher's book to be the best by far! There are two aspects of the book I found particularly attractive. First, it is short and to the point. You can read it in a day or two and learn enough of the essentials to get started on your first database design project, I did. Second, it clearly demonstrates the relationship between object-oriented data modeling and relational database design. The latter aspect made the concepts and examples particularly easy for me to understand and I suspect it will do the same for anyone else reading this book with an object-oriented programming background. Simply a great book!
32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Excellent introduction to database design
8 Nov 2007
Format:Paperback
This book does a great job of explaining data modeling, including how it corresponds to tables in a database. The book is well-written and very organized, and the examples do a good job of illustrating the concepts. It's also mercifully short compared to other options.
It's appropriate for database beginners, and for experiences developers who are getting into database design for the first time. There's a section on how this all relates to OOP, with no focus on a specific language.
The examples apply to any database systems that support standard SQL including Access and MySQL. Note that the book does not cover Access and MySQL directly -- you'll need different resources for that. For MySQL, the tutorials on the MySQL site itself are a surprisingly good place to start.
This book tells you how to think about your database *before* you begin to develop it, which can be critical if you're designing anything even slightly complicated.
I'm developing a Ruby on Rails web app, and this book really helped me think through some issues that I had not considered until now.
It's appropriate for database beginners, and for experiences developers who are getting into database design for the first time. There's a section on how this all relates to OOP, with no focus on a specific language.
The examples apply to any database systems that support standard SQL including Access and MySQL. Note that the book does not cover Access and MySQL directly -- you'll need different resources for that. For MySQL, the tutorials on the MySQL site itself are a surprisingly good place to start.
This book tells you how to think about your database *before* you begin to develop it, which can be critical if you're designing anything even slightly complicated.
I'm developing a Ruby on Rails web app, and this book really helped me think through some issues that I had not considered until now.
47 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Not 'From Novice to Professional' (If you know what a JOIN is read this review)
15 Feb 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bottom line first: This is a fine book. If you use MS Access on your desktop to maintain a SOHO database this book is for you. If you have ever used MySQL or PostgreSQL on the command line or connected to a database from application code it will be much too basic.
Three stars because this book is not what I have come to expect from the Apress 'From Novice to Professional' series:
1) The book is written in a very 'chatty' style which results in a much lower information density than other titles in this series.
2) The book stops miles short of 'Professional'. At best, I'd say it lands the reader at competent, maybe dilettante, most likely charlatan.
3) The underlying technology is treated as an unfortunate complication from which the reader is insulated rather than the subject of the book.
4) The theory is illustrated through best-case examples rather than rigorously defined with boundary cases.
I'd say this book should be subtitled "For the Unwilling Accidental DBA" or published in the "For Dummies" series. It's a fine book and with either of those title it would likely end up in the correct hands.
A couple of other notes:
- The book deals almost exclusively with relational databases. Don't expect a mention of key-value stores or NoSQL (there is a chapter on using relational databases as OO databases).
- The book is not RDBMS specific; however, the author's figures, screenshots, and implementation examples are MS Access heavy.
Three stars because this book is not what I have come to expect from the Apress 'From Novice to Professional' series:
1) The book is written in a very 'chatty' style which results in a much lower information density than other titles in this series.
2) The book stops miles short of 'Professional'. At best, I'd say it lands the reader at competent, maybe dilettante, most likely charlatan.
3) The underlying technology is treated as an unfortunate complication from which the reader is insulated rather than the subject of the book.
4) The theory is illustrated through best-case examples rather than rigorously defined with boundary cases.
I'd say this book should be subtitled "For the Unwilling Accidental DBA" or published in the "For Dummies" series. It's a fine book and with either of those title it would likely end up in the correct hands.
A couple of other notes:
- The book deals almost exclusively with relational databases. Don't expect a mention of key-value stores or NoSQL (there is a chapter on using relational databases as OO databases).
- The book is not RDBMS specific; however, the author's figures, screenshots, and implementation examples are MS Access heavy.
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