Database Design Made Easy: Effective Relational Database Design For Ordinary People

Database Design Made Easy: Effective Relational Database Design For Ordinary People
Author: M. Clinton Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2014
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1909953555
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Database Design Made Easy presents a revolutionary new method for designing your relational database. You don't need to know any theory - if you can draw how you want to enter your data into your data entry screen, then you can design your relational database. A little-known nugget of truth is that your data entry screen tells you everything you need to know about the underlying relational design. The technique described in this book pulls you gently through the design process and it comes as something of a surprise to discover that you have designed your database without pain and almost without realising it. For anyone who has tried to get to grips with relational design and failed (i.e. the majority) this book and the technique described within will come as a welcome relief.

Building_Relational Databases Made Easy: Database Development For Ordinary People

Building_Relational Databases Made Easy: Database Development For Ordinary People
Author: M. Clinton Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2014
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1909953563
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Relational Database Development Made Easy provides you with the building blocks for building any relational database from a paper-based design - it doesn't matter if your database design has two or two hundred tables, this book tells you exactly what you have to do to build your database using Microsoft Access 2013. Many database books do little more than run you through the features of the particular package covered, but without quite getting around to telling you how to build a database. This book, however, lets you get on with building your database quietly and without fuss. The book shows how to progress from nothing but a paper-based design to a working relational database. As we jog through the worked examples, the concepts are explained in simple, jargon-free language, so that those who have never built a database before (i.e. the intended market for this book) can keep up without trouble.

Relational Database Design Clearly Explained

Relational Database Design Clearly Explained
Author: Jan L. Harrington
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2002-04-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080516068
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Fully revised and updated, Relational Database Design, Second Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to relational database design available. Here, you'll find the conceptual and practical information you need to develop a design that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance, regardless of your experience level or choice of DBMS. Supporting the book's step-by-step instruction are three case studies illustrating the planning, analysis, and design steps involved in arriving at a sound design. These real-world examples include object-relational design techniques, which are addressed in greater detail in a new chapter devoted entirely to this timely subject.* Concepts you need to master to put the book's practical instruction to work.* Methods for tailoring your design to the environment in which the database will run and the uses to which it will be put.* Design approaches that ensure data accuracy and consistency.* Examples of how design can inhibit or boost database application performance.* Object-relational design techniques, benefits, and examples.* Instructions on how to choose and use a normalization technique.* Guidelines for understanding and applying Codd's rules.* Tools to implement a relational design using SQL.* Techniques for using CASE tools for database design.

Beginning Database Design Solutions

Beginning Database Design Solutions
Author: Rod Stephens
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2010-12-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 047044052X
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The vast majority of software applications use relational databases that virtually every application developer must work with. This book introduces you to database design, whether you're a DBA or database developer. You'll discover what databases are, their goals, and why proper design is necessary to achieve those goals. Additionally, you'll master how to structure the database so it gives good performance while minimizing the chance for error. You will learn how to decide what should be in a database to meet the application's requirements.

Relational Database Design and Implementation

Relational Database Design and Implementation
Author: Jan L. Harrington
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2009-09-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080885012
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Fully revised, updated, and expanded, Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to the subject available for IT/IS professionals interested in honing their skills in database design, implementation, and administration. This book provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance, regardless of experience level or choice of DBMS.The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database design, then briefly reviews the SQL one would use to create databases. Topics such as the relational data model, normalization, data entities and Codd's Rules (and why they are important) are covered clearly and concisely but without resorting to "Dummies"-style talking down to the reader.Supporting the book's step-by-step instruction are three NEW case studies illustrating database planning, analysis, design, and management practices. In addition to these real-world examples, which include object-relational design techniques, an entirely NEW section consisting of three chapters is devoted to database implementation and management issues. - Principles needed to understand the basis of good relational database design and implementation practices - Examples to illustrate core concepts for enhanced comprehension and to put the book's practical instruction to work - Methods for tailoring DB design to the environment in which the database will run and the uses to which it will be put - Design approaches that ensure data accuracy and consistency - Examples of how design can inhibit or boost database application performance - Object-relational design techniques, benefits, and examples - Instructions on how to choose and use a normalization technique - Guidelines for understanding and applying Codd's rules - Tools to implement a relational design using SQL - Techniques for using CASE tools for database design

The B&C Discography: 1968 to 1975

The B&C Discography: 1968 to 1975
Author: Mark Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2015
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1909953377
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Updated and expanded second edition of this Award Nominated book (nominated for the 2014 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research). Strictly limited edition of 50 copies in green jacket design. B&C started life as a distribution company, which was set up as a sister company to Island. Island's early success led B&C's owner, Lee Gopthal, to start releasing records in his own right. However, B&C's main strategy was based on licensing records rather than signing artists in its own right and many of B&C's labels concentrated on singles and budget compilation albums - strategies that set the seeds of the company's own destruction. The end, when it came in 1975 was probably inevitable. Still, whilst B&C was about, some very good music got released, almost despite itself on occasion. This book includes comprehensive discographies covering the Action, Stable, B&C, Charisma, Pegasus, Peg, People, Mooncrest, Dragon, Sussex and Seven Sun labels.

Relational Database Design and Implementation

Relational Database Design and Implementation
Author: Jan L. Harrington
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0128499028
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Relational Database Design and Implementation: Clearly Explained, Fourth Edition, provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a database design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance. Database systems underlie the large majority of business information systems. Most of those in use today are based on the relational data model, a way of representing data and data relationships using only two-dimensional tables. This book covers relational database theory as well as providing a solid introduction to SQL, the international standard for the relational database data manipulation language. The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database design, then turns to creating, populating, and retrieving data using SQL. Topics such as the relational data model, normalization, data entities, and Codd's Rules (and why they are important) are covered clearly and concisely. In addition, the book looks at the impact of big data on relational databases and the option of using NoSQL databases for that purpose. - Features updated and expanded coverage of SQL and new material on big data, cloud computing, and object-relational databases - Presents design approaches that ensure data accuracy and consistency and help boost performance - Includes three case studies, each illustrating a different database design challenge - Reviews the basic concepts of databases and database design, then turns to creating, populating, and retrieving data using SQL

Six-step Relational Database Design

Six-step Relational Database Design
Author: Fidel A. Captain
Publisher: Fidel A Captain
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-05-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1481942727
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Bridges the gaps between database theory, database modeling, and database implementation by outlining a simple but reliable six-step process for accurately modeling user data on a Crow's Foot Relational Model Diagram, and then demonstrating how to implement this model on any relational database management system. This volume uses three case studies and starts with a statement of the problem by the client and then goes through the six steps necessary to create a reliable and accurate data model of the client's business requirements. The second edition contains a new chapter on implementation that goes through the steps necessary to implement each of the case studies on a relational database management system, clearly relating the design to implementation and database theory. In addition, questions are also included at the end of each of the six steps and one of the previous case studies has been replaced, making the case study selection more diverse. This book is intended for use as a handbook for students and professionals in the software-development field. The technique described in this book can be used by students for quickly developing relational databases for their applications, and by professionals for developing sturdy, reliable, and accurate relational database models for their software applications. --From publisher description.

Designing Effective Database Systems

Designing Effective Database Systems
Author: Rebecca Riordan
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Database design
ISBN: 9780321290939
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"Riordan covers core skills for any developer--database design and development--in a perfect amount of detail. This book should be on every professional developer''s reading list." --Duncan Mackenzie, developer, Microsoft (MSDN)"Designing a database is not a trivial subject. Riordan brings experience and clear explanations to a fundamental part of software development." --Patrick Birch, database and technical writing consultant"If you buy only one book on database design, make it this one. Riordan has a talent for explaining technical issues in simple language, without over simplifying." --Brendan Reynolds, developer, Dataset IT Systems and Microsoft Access MVP"A book that will expertly guide you in how to develop a database for a client-- and how to do it right the first time!" --Kenneth D. Snell, Ph.D., ACCESS developer and Microsoft Access MVP "Riordan has produced a unique book that brings together a formal, yet commonsense, approach to relational database design...and then goes further! Many database designers will find immense value in the steps to developing practical data warehouse designs. If you are seeking a framework for designing transactional databases, or want to step out into the world of analytical databases, Riordan''s book excels at bridging both worlds." --Paul Irvine, vice president, engineering, Via Training"Riordan takes a complex subject and makes it easy. If you''re over your head on a database design project, this book will help bail you out!" --Mike Gunderloy, contributing editor, Application Development Trends "This book covers a wide range of database design and data modeling topics in a well-organized, easy to understand format." --Amy Sticksel, Sticksel Data Systems, Inc."In Designing Effective Database Systems, Riordan''s style, wit, and attention to detail are outstanding." --Sandra Daigle, Microsoft Access MVP The Software Developer''s Step-by-Step Guide to Database Design World-renowned expert Rebecca M. Riordan has written the definitive database design book for working developers who aren''t database experts. No matter how messy or complex your data challenge, Designing Effective Database Systems shows you how to design an effective, high-performance database to solve it. Riordan begins by thoroughly demystifying the principles of relational design, making them accessible to every professional developer. Next, she offers the field''s clearest introduction to dimensional database modeling--practical insight for designing today''s increasingly important analytical applications. One task at a time, the author illuminates every facet of database analysis and design for both traditional databases and the dimensional databases used for data warehousing, showing how to avoid common architectural pitfalls that complicate development and reduce extensibility. The book concludes with comprehensive, expert guidance on designing databases for maximum usability. This book will teach you to Understand relational database models, structures, relationships, and data integrity principles Define database system goals, criteria, scope, and work processes Construct accurate conceptual models: relationships, entities, domain analysis, and normalization Build efficient, secure database schema Master the elements of online analytical processing (OLAP) design: fact tables, dimension tables, snowflaking, and more Architect and construct easy, efficient interfaces for querying and reporting Learn from practice examples based on Microsoft''s Northwind sample database Riordan has helped thousands of professionals master database design and development, earning Microsoft''s coveted MVP honor for her exceptional contributions. Nobody is more qualified to help you master database design and apply it in your real-world environment.

Database Design and Relational Theory

Database Design and Relational Theory
Author: C. J. Date
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1484255402
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Create database designs that scale, meet business requirements, and inherently work toward keeping your data structured and usable in the face of changing business models and software systems. This book is about database design theory. Design theory is the scientific foundation for database design, just as the relational model is the scientific foundation for database technology in general. Databases lie at the heart of so much of what we do in the computing world that negative impacts of poor design can be extraordinarily widespread. This second edition includes greatly expanded coverage of exotic and little understood normal forms such as: essential tuple normal form (ETNF), redundancy free normal form (RFNF), superkey normal form (SKNF), sixth normal form (6NF), and domain key normal form (DKNF). Also included are new appendixes, including one that provides an in-depth look into the crucial notion of data consistency. Sequencing of topics has been improved, and many explanations and examples have been rewritten and clarified based upon the author’s teaching of the content in instructor-led courses. This book aims to be different from other books on design by bridging the gap between the theory of design and the practice of design. The book explains theory in a way that practitioners should be able to understand, and it explains why that theory is of considerable practical importance. Reading this book provides you with an important theoretical grounding on which to do the practical work of database design. Reading the book also helps you in going to and understanding the more academic texts as you build your base of knowledge and expertise. Anyone with a professional interest in database design can benefit from using this book as a stepping-stone toward a more rigorous design approach and more lasting database models. What You Will LearnUnderstand what design theory is and is notBe aware of the two different goals of normalizationKnow which normal forms are truly significant Apply design theory in practice Be familiar with techniques for dealing with redundancy Understand what consistency is and why it is crucially important Who This Book Is For Those having a professional interest in database design, including data and database administrators; educators and students specializing in database matters; information modelers and database designers; DBMS designers, implementers, and other database vendor personnel; and database consultants. The book is product independent.