Conceptual Database Design: An Entity-Relationship Approach (Paperback)

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This database design book provides the reader with a unique methodology for the conceptual and logical design of databases. A step-by-step method is given for developing a conceptual structure for large databases with multiple users. Additionally, the authors provide an up-to-date survey and analysis of existing database design tools.

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This comprehensive book is written to meet the needs of database designers, programmers, and end-users interested in maximizing the power of conceptual and logical design using the entity-relationship approach. The authors, internationally know experts in the field, thoroughly examine conceptual design, functional analysis, and logical design with an emphasis on issues related to the user and the application. The text presents a unique step-by-step design methodology that incorporates state-of-the art software engineering and database design techniques and includes a large, realistic case study that illustrates key concepts. A capstone chapter, written by Dr. David Reiner, provides a survey of database design tools including basic tools for conceptual and logical design and current commercial database design and CASE Tools. Features

* Teaches how to conceptualize, design, reverse engineer, or modify large relational, network, or hierchical database systems.
* Introduces and explains concepts and their implementations using a step-by-step methodology that is accessible to database designers, end-users, and application programmers.
* Emphasizes the entity-relationship model throughout, including coverage of generalization hierarchies, set-subset relationships, and a variety of semantic constraints.
* Integrates functional analysis with data analysis to show how to create an integrated database environment for a variety of reasons.
* Examines reverse mapping into E-R schema for the relational, network, and hierarchical models.
* Illustrates how to implement design techniques through a large, realistic case study/application.
* Provides an up-to-date survey and analysis of existing database design tools.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 470 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley (August 17, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805302441
• ISBN-13: 978-0805302448
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,108,609 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Database Design book ever, March 9, 2001

By	André Granville (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews

Following my teacher's recommendation, I bought this book for a class I had on Conceptual Database Design. This book is a masterpiece on data modeling, covering conceptual, logical and phisical database design in a clear and direct way. One of the bests parts of the book are the plenty exercises on the end of each chapter. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to be a serius database designer.