by RebeccaM.Riordan (Author)
World-renowned expert Rebecca M. Riordan has written the definitive database design book for working developers who aren't database experts. No matter how messy or complex your data challenge, Designing Effective Database Systems shows you how to design an effective, high-performance database to solve it.
Riordan begins by thoroughly demystifying the principles of relational design, making them accessible to every professional developer. Next, she offers the field's clearest introduction to dimensional database modeling-practical insight for designing today's increasingly important analytical applications.
One task at a time, the author illuminates every facet of database analysis and design for both traditional databases and the dimensional databases used for data warehousing, showing how to avoid common architectural pitfalls that complicate development and reduce extensibility. The book concludes with comprehensive, expert guidance on designing databases for maximum usability.
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Riordan has helped thousands of professionals master database design and development, earning Microsoft's coveted MVP honor for her exceptional contributions. Nobody is more qualified to help you master database design and apply it in your real-world environment.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Publisher: Addison Wesley Even though most developers spend much of their programming time workingwith databases, many of them have never had any focused training on how todesign and build a database that works smoothly and is easy to use. RebeccaRiordan is a well-known authority on database design. Her intention in thisbook is to give the reader the knowledge needed to take a messy, complex, realworldsituation and turn it into an effective database design. This isn't a howto program book. While there are a few coding examples, even people whohave never programmed before should be able to follow them. Instead thebook is full of practical examples taken from real-world situations, andexplained without the use of code. The sample databases used are Access andMicrosoft SQL Server, but the lessons are applicable to any database program.This book is an updated edition of Designing Relational Database Systems ,073560634X, Microsoft Press, which was very highly regarded but is now outof print.
Published: 10 Jan 2005
ISBN 10: 0321290933
ISBN 13: 9780321290939
Book Overview:
Rebecca M. Riordan has more than fifteen years of experience designing and developing databases and other applications. She is a Microsoft MVP and a frequent speaker at conferences, including Microsoft TechEd. She is the author of many books, including Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET (Addison-Wesley, 2005). Her other highly respected books include Designing Relational Database Systems (1999), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming Step by Step (2000), and ADO.NET Step by Step (2002), all published by Microsoft Press.