Database Design: Know It All

All of the elements of database design together in a single volume written by the best and brightest experts in the field!

Toby J. Teorey (Author), Tony Morgan (Author), Thomas P. Nadeau (Author), Bonnie O'Neil (Author), Elizabeth O'Neil (Author), Patrick O'Neil (Author), Markus Schneider (Author), Graeme Simsion (Author), Graham Witt (Author), Stephen Buxton (Author), Lowell Fryman (Author), Ralf Hartmut Güting (Author), Terry Halpin (Author), Jan L. Harrington (Author), W.H. Inmon (Author), Sam S. Lightstone (Author), Jim Melton (Author)

9780123746306, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 12 November 2008

368 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.5 cm, 0.91 kg

This book brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology ? from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases. The proposed book expertly combines the finest database design material from the Morgan Kaufmann portfolio. Individual chapters are derived from a select group of MK books authored by the best and brightest in the field. These chapters are combined into one comprehensive volume in a way that allows it to be used as a reference work for those interested in new and developing aspects of database design. This book represents a quick and efficient way to unite valuable content from leading database design experts, thereby creating a definitive, one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.

Chapter 1: The Database Life Cycle
Chapter 2: Entity-Relationship Concepts
Chapter 3: Data Modeling in UML
Chapter 4: Requirements Analysis and Conceptual Data Modeling
Chapter 5: Logical Database Design
Chapter 6: Normalization
Chapter 7: Physical Database Design
Chapter 8: Denormalization
Chapter 9: Business Metadata Infrastructure
Chapter 10: Storing XML
Chapter 11: Modeling and Querying Current Movement

Subject Areas: Data capture & analysis [UNC], Database programming [UMT]