Chmura / Heumann Logical Data Modeling

What it is and How to do it
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-22962-1
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Integrated Series in Information Systems

Logical Data Modeling offers business managers, analysts, and students a clear, basic systematic guide to defining business information structures in relational database terms. The approach, based on Clive Finkelstein's business-side Information Engineering, is hands-on, practical, and explicit in terminology and reasoning. Filled with illustrations, examples, and exercises, Logical Data Modeling makes its subject accessible to readers with only a limited knowledge of database systems. The book covers all essential topics thoroughly but succinctly: entities, associations, attributes, keys and inheritance, valid and invalid structures, and normalization. It also emphasizes communication with business and database specialists, documentation, and the use of Visible Systems' Visible Advantage enterprise modeling tool. The application of design patterns to logical data modeling provides practitioners with a practical tool for fast development. At the end, a chapter covers the issues that arise when the logical data model is translated into the design for a physical database.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chmura, Alan

Heumann, J. Mark

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Preface;8
3;Acknowledgments;12
4;Chapter 1 GETTING STARTED;13
5;Chapter 2 THE ART GALLERY WEB: A DATA MODELING EXAMPLE;43
6;Chapter 3 BUILDING THE DATA MAP;47
7;Chapter 4 THE ART GALLERY WEB ( CONTINUED);66
8;Chapter 5 KEYS AND VALID ASSOCIATIONS;73
9;Chapter 6 THE ART GALLERY WEB ( CONTINUED);108
10;Chapter 7 DEFINING ATTRIBUTES;118
11;Chapter 8 THE ART GALLERY WEB ( CONTINUED);136
12;Chapter 9 VERIFYING THE DATA MODEL;142
13;Chapter 10 VALIDATING THE DATA MODEL;158
14;Chapter 12 FROM LOGICAL TO PHYSICAL;204
15;Chapter 13 THE END AND THE BEGINNING;224
16;References;227
17;Index;229