Database Solutions: A step by step guide to building databases (2nd Edition)

Are you responsible for designing and creating the databases that keep your business running? Or are you studying for a module in database design? If so, Database Solutions is for you! This fully revised and updated edition will make the database design and build process smoother, quicker and more reliable. Recipe for database success \* Take one RDMS -- 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, use a common data model that fits your requirements and adapt as necessary Are you responsible for designing and creating the databases that keep your business running? Or are you studying for a module in database design? If so, Database Solutions is for you! This fully revised and updated edition will make the database design and build process smoother, quicker and more reliable.Recipe for database successTake one RDMS Ð 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, use a common data model that fits your requirements and adapt as necessary The second edition of this book incorporates two relational database design methodologies to teach readers how databases can be implemented in Microsoft Access and Oracle. Not only does the book provide a comprehensive methodology for relational database design, but the authors also show readers how to use the latest installation of UML. Fifteen sample database designs chosen from seven common business areas are located in an Appendix, and an evaluation copy of Rational Rose software is included on the accompanying CD-ROM. Database designers wanting to learn more about relational database theory as well as those just wanting to expand there general database technology knowledge. The database is now the underlying framework of the information system and has fundamentally changed the way many companies and individuals work. This text explains how to analyze, design and implement a database in a clear and concise way