Publisher: Morgan-Kaufmann, 2005, 532 pages
ISBN: 0-12-644551-6
Keywords: IT Architecture
This book is generally considered to be one of the best practical guides to data modeling and is commonly praised for its clarity and usefulness. Although it is a practitioner's guide, it garnered healthy classroom adoptions in the US and Australia. For the 3rd ed the authors have added a substantial online component including UML versions of all the diagrams, extra examples, course notes, questions, and solutions.
Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition provides expert tutelage for data modelers, business analysts and systems designers at all levels. Beginning with the basics, this book provides a thorough grounding in theory before guiding the reader through the various stages of applied data modeling and database design. Later chapters address advanced subjects, including business rules, data warehousing, enterprise-wide modeling and data management.
The third edition of this popular book retains its distinctive hallmarks of readability and usefulness, but has been given significantly expanded coverage and reorganized for greater reader comprehension. Authored by two leaders in the field, Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition is the ideal reference for professionals and students looking for a real-world perspective. Thorough coverage of the fundamentals and relevant theory.
First of all, this is NOT the first book on the subject of being a DBA! This is a very comprehensive take on the subject of data modeling (even if there is a try to give the reader a grounding in the bare pre-requisites in the beginning of the book). With that in mind, this is in my opinion a good (nearly very good, but I'm not a sufficient expert in this area to make that judgement) book on the subject matter.
Of course, you have to be interested, as the writing is pretty dry.
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