Database Solutions: A Step-By-Step Approach to Building Databases - Softcover

Connolly, Thomas M.; Begg, Carolyn E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201674769 ISBN 13: 9780201674767

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1999

Synopsis

Provides detailed instruction on using UML for data modeling with ready-to-use data models and databases and examples for building your own database in Oracle and Access. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

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From the Back Cover

Database Solutions:A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Databases by Thomas Connolly & Carolyn Begg

Do you carry the world on your shoulders? Does every request for a new business system from Senior Management land on your desk? Are you responsible for designing and creating the databases that keep your business running? Would you like to make the design and build process smoother, quicker and more reliable?

Recipe for disaster:

• Take one RDMS
  
• Follow instructions on packet
  

Recipe for success:

• Take one RDMS n any of the major commercial products will do***Oracle***Informix***SQL Server***Access***Paradox
  
• Add one thorough reading of Database Solutions if you are an inexperienced database designer, or one recap of the methodology if you are an old hand
  
• Use the design and implementation frameworks to plan your timetable
  
• Measure out a common data model that fits your requirements and adapt as necessary
  
• Weigh up advice and tips from the authors - experienced professionals
  

Make life easy. Look in this book and CD-ROM for:

• Step-by-step instructions on designing and building databases
  
• Advice and tips on building a successful database
  
• Comprehensive guidance on avoiding pitfalls and traps
  
• How to create data models using the new design notation, UML (with appendices mapping to Chen's notation and the Crow's Feet notation)
  
• Shortcuts: 15 sample data models to adapt to your needs, chosen from 7 common business areas, plus SQL scripts for each
  
• Two full length, coded example databases written on Microsoft Access 97 and Oracle 8
  
• Evaluation copy of Rational's UML visual modelling tool, Rose.
  

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About the Author

Thomas Connolly was a designer of RAPPORT, the world's first commercial portable DBMS, and of the LIFESPAN configuration management tool -- a winner of the British Design Award.

Carolyn Begg specializes in the application of database systems in biological research. They are both authors of the best-selling book Database Systems, also published by Addison-Wesley.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0201674769
• ISBN 13: 9780201674767
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448