Data Modeling: A Beginner's Guide

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Essential Skills--Made Easy! Learn how to create data models that allow complex data to be analyzed, manipulated, extracted, and reported upon accurately. Data Modeling: A Beginner's Guide teaches you techniques for gathering business requirements and using them to produce conceptual, logical, and physical database designs. You'll get details on Unified Modeling Language (UML), normalization, incorporating business rules, handling temporal data, and analytical database design. The methods presented in this fast-paced tutorial are applicable to any database management system, regardless of vendor. Designed for Easy Learning Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter Ask the expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips Try This--Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered Self Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge Andy Oppel has taught database technology for the University of California Extension for more than 25 years. He is the author of Databases Demystified, SQL Demystified , and Databases: A Beginner's Guide , and the co-author of SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition , and SQL: The Complete Reference, Third Edition . Review: Want to learn about relational database design? This is the best place to start - The best book on the subject that I have read. Good coverage of the subject. A balanced view. Most books on the subject tell you that their way is the only way. While he certainely has his preferred methods, he does discuss some alternatives. Review: Great book if you don't know where to start, but watch out for typos - I checked this out from the library because I want to get better with database design. Although it is a great book, it has lots of typos and a few errors. To make sure I'm getting everything, I always take the chapter quizzes and do the "try this" sections, and I don't look at the answers until I'm done. In some cases, the answers in the back are questionable. I think there's mistakes in particular words that change the meaning of the question or answer, and also I've found one question in the the answer section that is worded differently than in the chapter. This really caused me frustration until I actually found the difference. It won't take you two weeks to read this book, but it is me because I'm doing all the practices and quizzes as if I were really being tested on it. If you're just reading it, you probably won't notice [or be bothered by] the errors I've found. I'm still a bit confused about some of the things taught in here, like the "Party" model, but what the hey, you can never satisfy everybody. It's still an excellent book. If I owned it, I'd be writing notes all over it.