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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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This is 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. It 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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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Disappointing, 25 Jul 2006 By  P. Williams "prwwiz" (UK) - See all my reviews    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.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews