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by Jan L. Harrington (Author) "So many of today's businesses rely on their database systems for accurate, up-to-date information ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 286 pages
  • Publisher: AP Professional (Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0123264251
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123264251
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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This work teaches database practitioners the principles of good relational database design. It discusses tradeoffs between theory and practice, for example when it's alright to violate a principle of good design in order to improve performance. The book also shows readers how to construct the SQL statements needed to install well-designed relational databases, and discusses other performance related database design issues, such as indexes and clustering.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Strikes the right balance between theory and practice., 22 Jun 2001
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Having had a nightmare of a time learning relational databases with my course text, this came as a massive relief. It strikes a good balance between the theory (Normalisation, Relationships, integrity) and practical advice, with the 3 case studies at the end being particularly useful when you actually want to implement something. I particularly recommend this if you don't understand what your lecturer is on about!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Explanations, Reference, 18 Mar 1999
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This is a book that I wish all were like: Well written, helpful examples, good explanations, excellent coverage, and above all completly lucid and clear.

Harrington gives a great account of relational databases and practical rationales for their designs. She really does begin at the beginning go until the end and stop-- which is much more than what I'll say for most other books on database design.

Lives up to the title and then some! Bravo!!

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1.0 out of 5 stars This is 'Cleary Explained' ?, 4 Jul 2000
By jakeone@freeuk.com (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews
The author falls into that all too common band of technical writers who clearly know their subject but have huge difficulty communicating them to people new to the topic. The book certainly did not explain relational database design clearly and left me thinking that the subject is harder than ever.

My main complaint against this book is that it did not make the effort to explain the fundamentals clearly enough. These were *fundamentals* of relational database design, the foundations upon which a beginner's understanding of the subject would be built so, in light of this, would a few diagrams be too much to ask? "Yes" it would appear. There were no diagrams when a diagram would have certainly helped; definitions were cumbersome and the few examples that were offered were ambiguous and inadequate. Shaky grounds to try and build one's entire understanding upon.

That no one bothered to proof-read the book is also painfully obvious: a one-to-many relationship was immediately introduced as a many-to-many, described as a one-to-many, went back to a many-to-many (whilst the definition was still one-to-many) and ended back as a one-to-many - p.24-25. (Now you know how confused I was). If a book that purports to explain relational databases clearly cannot even define such a fundamental concept accurately, how good can it really be?

This book has really dented my confidence to ever master relational databases.

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