Beginning database design from novice to professional

Setting up a database even for a small problem is a big job (if you do it properly). This book is primarily for beginners or those people who want to set up a small, single-user database. The ideas are applicable to larger, multiuser projects, but there are considerable additional problems that you will encounter there. We do not look at problems to do with concurrency (many users acting together), or efficiencies, nor how you manage a large project. There are many excellent books on software engineering and database management that deal with these issues.
The main objective of this book is to ensure that the people starting out on setting up a database have a sufficient understanding of the underlying data so that any effort expended on actual implementation will yield satisfying results. Even small problems are more complicated than they appear at first sight. A data model will help you understand the intricacies of the problem so that some pragmatic decisions can be made about what should be attempted. Once you have a data model that you are happy with, you can be confident that the resulting database design (if implemented faithfully) will not disappoint. It may be that after doing the modeling you decide a database is not the appropriate solution. Better to decide early than after hours of effort have gone into a doomed implementation.

- Author: Clare Churcher

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- Published: 2007
- Language: English
- Format: PDF
- ISBN: 1-59059-769-9
- Pages: 267
- Size: 5.81 MB
- Link: beginning-database-design-from-novice-to-professional