Beginning Database Design by Clare Churcher

Beginning Database Design by Clare Churcher

Beginning Database Design, Second Edition provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, you’ll learn to discover and represent the details and scope of any design problem you choose to attack.

Database design is not an exact science. Many are surprised to find that problems with their databases are caused by poor design rather than by difficulties in using the database management software. Beginning Database Design, Second Edition helps you ask and answer important questions about your data so you can understand the problem you are trying to solve and create a pragmatic design capturing the essentials while leaving the door open for refinements and extension at a later stage. Solid database design principles and examples help demonstrate the consequences of simplifications and pragmatic decisions. The rationale is to try to keep a design simple, but allow room for development as situations change or resources permit.

• Provides solid design principles by which to avoid pitfalls and support changing needs
• Includes numerous examples of good and bad design decisions and their consequences
• Shows a modern method for documenting design using the Unified Modeling Language

She earned a first-class honors physics degree and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She did postdoctoral research at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University in UK. Clare's inquiry focuses on data management and visualization, particularly in the context of scientific research. She has a background in database design and has taught programming, information systems analysis and design, and database administration to undergraduates, as well as software engineering and scientific visualization to postgraduates.

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ISBN 13	9781430242093
ISBN 10	1430242094
Title	Beginning Database Design
Author	Clare Churcher
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Year published	2012-06-29
Number of pages	252
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