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  • Paperback: 504 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; ebook edition (2 Dec 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764574906
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764574900
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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  • The perfect reference for programmers, administrators, or Web designers who are new to database development and are uncertain as to how to design and structure a database efficiently
  • Shows how to design and implement robust, scalable databases on any of the major relational database management systems, including Access, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, and Oracle
  • Covers all the key database design steps including modeling, normalization, SQL, denormalization, object modeling, data warehousing, and performance
  • Provides plenty of real world examples and a complete beginning to end case study of creating a database that includes the analysis and planning, tables and data structures, business rules, and hardware requirements


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Database design involves how to best structure the tables and queries that are used with databases in order to provide optimum performance, storage, manageability, and flexibility. With relational databases, you can use those tables to organize your data and retrieve information from your database. This book provides you with an easy–to–understand explanation of designing and building relational database models to do just that.

The numerous step–by–step examples and a helpful case study simplify a potentially complex subject and present it to you in an organized, understandable manner. You′ll find out why relational database models became necessary in the first place, and how the relational database model was devised. Ultimately, you′ll discover how to make much better use of your database by applying what you′ve learned about building the database model.

What you will learn from this book

  • Basic concepts of relational database modeling
  • The components of a relational database model
  • Making normalization easier to use
  • Advanced relational database modeling
  • How to improve relational database model performance
  • Describing tables during using analysis (WHAT needs to be solved)
  • Refining tables and relationships using design (HOW to provide solutions)
  • How to read and write data with SQL
  • Create relational database models by applying business rules

Who this book is for

This book is for new database developers. No prior database or programming experience is required.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 24 Jul 2006
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This is a poor book. Titled for beginners it does provide an overview of db design for beginners but unfortunately this book would only confuse a new db designer or even worse show them how not to do it.
The book contains fundamental errors (not just typos) and the author surprisingly does not seem to have any idea of the difference between logical and physical design. His methodology of the sequence of db design is totally wrong and confusing.
One very annoying point throughout the whole book is the author's insistance of writing ten lines to what could be said in two and continually repeating himself (if he mentioned overnormalisation causes performance issues he stated it a 100 times, yet failed to appreciate that undernormalisation could also cause data integrity issues).
If you want to learn db design this is not the book to do it.
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