Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition covers, in an intuitive, way, the database design process, from the inception of a database to effectively mapping the design to a relational model, which can then be implemented in any relational software. Students also learn how to reverse engineer a database from relational mappings.
Unique selling point: Focuses solely on entity-relationship model diagramming and design
Core audience: Undergraduate CS students and professionals
Place in the market: Undergraduate textbook
Dr. Sikha Saha Bagui is an associate professor and interim associate chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida. She teaches a variety of computer science and database courses, and her research areas of concentration are database design, web databases, data mining and statistical computing. Dr. Bagui has published many journal articles and co-authored several books with Dr. Earp.
Dr. Richard Walsh Earp, Professor Emeritus, is a former chair of and former associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and former dean of the College of Science and Technology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. Dr. Earp was also an instructor with Learning Tree International and worked for Computer Sciences Corporation at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola as a database consultant after his retirement from academia. He has co-authored several books with Dr. Bagui.
Data, Databases, and the Software Engineering Process. Data and Data Models. The Relational Model and Functional Dependencies. The Basic Entity Relationship (ER) Diagram: A Data Modeling Schema. Beyond the First Entity Diagram. Extending Relationships/Structural Constraints. The Weak Entity. Further Extensions for ER Diagrams with Binary Relationships. Ternary and Higher-Order ER Diagrams. The Enhanced Entity Relationship (EER) Model. Relational Mapping and Reverse Engineering ER/EER Diagrams. A Brief Overview of the Barker/Oracle-Like Model.