Beginning Database Design Solutions - Stephens, Rod
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Beginning Database Design Solutions
Databases play a critical role in the business operations of most organizations; they're the central repository for critical information on products, customers, suppliers, sales, and a host of other essential information. It's no wonder that the majority of all business computing involves database applications.
With so much at stake, you'd expect most IT professionals would have a firm understanding of good database design. But in fact most learn through a painful process of trial and error, with predictably poor results.
This book provides readers…mehr

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Beginning Database Design Solutions

Databases play a critical role in the business operations of most organizations; they're the central repository for critical information on products, customers, suppliers, sales, and a host of other essential information. It's no wonder that the majority of all business computing involves database applications.

With so much at stake, you'd expect most IT professionals would have a firm understanding of good database design. But in fact most learn through a painful process of trial and error, with predictably poor results.

This book provides readers with proven methods and tools for designing efficient, reliable, and secure databases. Author Rod Stephens explains how a database should be organized to ensure data integrity without sacrificing performance. He shares procedures for designing robust, flexible, and secure databases that provide a solid foundation for all of your database applications. The methods and techniques in this book can be applied to any database environment, including Oracle(r), Microsoft Access(r), SQL Server(r), and MySQL(r). You'll learn the basics of good database design and ultimately discover how to design a real-world database.?

What you will learn from this book
How to identify database requirements that meet users' needs
Ways to build data models using a variety of modeling techniques, including entity-relational models, user-interface models, and semantic object models
Tips for understanding the different types of databases, including relational databases, flat files, spreadsheets, XML and object databases
How to refine and tune the design to improve database performance
Techniques for understanding the relationship between good application design and database design
Methods for designing flexible and robust databases that can adapt to business change and growth
Ways to design for ease of maintenance and support
How to avoid common database design mistakes

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone interested in learning to design, build, analyze, and understand databases. No previous experience with databases or programs 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.
Autorenporträt
Rod Stephens is a professional software developer who has built a wide variety of software and database applications in his 20-year career. He is the author of 18 books and more than 250 articles, and is a regular contributor to DevX.com (www.devx.com). Rod's clear, compelling writing makes it easy for less experienced readers to master new material. His current position as an adjunct instructor for ITT Technical institute has given him additional insight into the kinds of discussion, examples, and exercises that students find most helpful.