- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (1 Jan 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201416964
- ISBN-13: 978-0201416961
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19.3 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 570,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"It was a pleasure to write the Foreword for such a well-written, informative book (Case Method: Entity Relationship Modelling ), I learned some new guidelines for entity relationship modelling when I read it over."
- Dr Carma McClure, Vice President of Research, Extended Intelligence Inc.
"Richard Barker has managed to encapsulate in book form (Case Method: Entity Relationship Modelling ) his many years of data modelling theory and practice. His new book comfortably achieves the seemingly impossible task of being both introductory and definitive at one and the same time."
- Russell Jones, Editor, Software Development Monitor
- Dr Carma McClure, Vice President of Research, Extended Intelligence Inc.
"Richard Barker has managed to encapsulate in book form (Case Method: Entity Relationship Modelling ) his many years of data modelling theory and practice. His new book comfortably achieves the seemingly impossible task of being both introductory and definitive at one and the same time."
- Russell Jones, Editor, Software Development Monitor
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Now data analysts, strategists and data administrators can learn the powerful technique of entity relationship modelling from this definitive guide. In a lucid instructional style, Richard Barker shows how the data modelling technique can be applied to develop high-quality, integrated information systems. Special features of the book include:
- a wealth of realistic examples illustrating the technique in practice
- detailed appendices highlighting the key topics including data normalization, CASE tool support, data administration and database design
- a definitive glossary of all important terms.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This is probably the best introductory volume on data modelling available. Barker concisely covers almost all entity relationship types and how they may be derived from the business. The main weakness with the book is the cursory treatment given to the process of extrapolating the logical models into the physical.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
A very clear and useful introduction to data modelling
12 Mar 1998
This book is an excellent introduction to the subject of data modelling. Although it is a brief book, it covers thoroughly all of the relevant issues of data modelling, including subtypes and arcs, and gives useful hints on how to gather the information necessary for developing a data model during the analysis phase of a project. It has three more bonuses: a section describing common mistakes on models, some assorted models of frequently used patterns (organization hierarchies, bill of materials, etc) and an appendix describing how to convert the conceptual model to SQL statements. This is the only book you need to learn data modelling.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
The ONLY database design book you need (w/one exception)
17 Aug 2001
I don't know why there are not more reviews on this book. I read this book when I first started my 12-year career in the database industry. And to tell you the truth, there is only one other book I have ever needed (regarding database design) -- "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" (Kimball) -- only because Data Warehouse design is much different than the design theories in this book.
This book teaches you ways to design any database, and model any business -- what questions to ask users, what an entity really is, how you define it, how to tell a difference between an entity and an attribute, how to model relationships between entities, how to model "types" in a database. If you an learn the principles in this book, you will quickly become an expert in database design.
Buy this book -- you will not need another. And if you are building a data warehouse, buy this book first, so you understand the difference between OLTP design and data warehouse design.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Still packs the most punch in as few words as necessary
8 Feb 2002
This was also my first book in Data Modelling and though its been almost 10 years ago since I picked up my copy, I still have not seen many better on the shelves since in its category: intro to data modeling via ER diagraming (IE notation)
Though I no longer need to refer to this book any longer, it was certainly the first and best of the first books read in the subject and it speedily had me on my way to more advanced topics and eventually becoming an expert ER modeller.
I was so impressed by the book I eventually joined Oracle.. alas Barker had moved on but his case*method books haven't lost a step in so long a time..
Though I no longer need to refer to this book any longer, it was certainly the first and best of the first books read in the subject and it speedily had me on my way to more advanced topics and eventually becoming an expert ER modeller.
I was so impressed by the book I eventually joined Oracle.. alas Barker had moved on but his case*method books haven't lost a step in so long a time..
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