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Database Design
1. |  The Data Governance Imperative By: Steve Sarsfield Publisher: IT Governance Ltd Publication Date: 23-APR-2009 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Data Governance Imperative
"Take control of your data for a more intelligent, responsive business
Proactive management of your corporate information has never been more important. Data governance isn't a challenge solely for the IT team - it's every inch a business issue.
Seamless processes and a personal commitment to clean data give you the ability to generate accurate business intelligence and financial reports, and gain an instant snap shot of the health of your business. Most importantly, they also help you run a more intelligent, agile, fast-moving business than your competitors.
The Data Governance...
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2. |  Relational Theory for Computer Professionals By: C.J. Date Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 22-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Relational Theory for Computer Professionals This book shows you what a real relational product would be like, and how and why it would be so much better than what’s currently available. Most books try to use SQL as a vehicle for teaching relational theory, but this book deliberately takes the opposite approach. Its primary aim is to teach relational theory as such. Then it uses that theory as a vehicle for teaching SQL, showing in particular how that theory can help with the practical problem of using SQL correctly and productively....
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3. |  Data Modeling Made Simple with ER/Studio Data Architect By: Steve Hoberman Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 15-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Modeling Made Simple with ER/Studio Data Architect
Data Modeling Made Simple with ER/Studio Data Architect (DA) will provide the business or IT professional with a practical working knowledge of data modeling concepts and best practices, along with how to apply these principles with ER/Studio DA. You'll build many ER/Studio DA data models along the way, applying best practices to master these ten objectives:
You will know why a data model is needed and which ER/Studio DA models are the most appropriate for each situation
You will be able to read a data model of any size and complexity with the same confidence as reading a...
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4. |  Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition By: Clare Churcher Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition
Beginning Database Design, Second Edition provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, you'll learn to discover and represent the details and scope of any design problem you choose to attack.
Database design is not an exact science. Many are surprised to find that problems with their databases are caused by poor design rather than by difficulties in...
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5. |  By: John Ladley Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 07-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Governance
This book is for any manager or team leader that has the green light to implement a data governance program. The problem of managing data continues to grow with issues surrounding cost of storage, exponential growth, as well as administrative, management and security concerns - the solution to being able to scale all of these issues up is data governance which provides better services to users and saves money. What you will find in this book is an overview of why data governance is needed, how to design, initiate, and execute a program and how to keep the program sustainable. With the...
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6. |  Test-Driven Database Development: Unlocking Agility By: Max Guernsey, III Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 21-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 13-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Test-Driven Database Development: Unlocking Agility The practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) has helped
thousands of software developers improve quality, agility,
productivity, and speed. In Test-Driven Database
Development, Max Guernsey, III shows how to adapt TDD to
achieve the same powerful benefits in database design and
development.
Guernsey first explains why TDD offers so much potential to
database practitioners, and how to overcome obstacles such as the
lack of conventional “testable classes.” You’ll
learn how to use “classes of databases” to manage
change more effectively; how to define testable database behaviors;
how to...
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7. |  Database Design for Mere Mortals®: A Hands-on Guide to Relational Database Design, Third Edition By: Michael J. Hernandez Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 14-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 08-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Database Design for Mere Mortals®: A Hands-on Guide to Relational Database Design, Third Edition
The #1 Easy, Commonsense Guide to
Database Design! Michael J. Hernandez’s best-selling
Database Design for Mere Mortals® has earned worldwide
respect as the clearest, simplest way to learn relational database
design. Now, he’s made this hands-on, software-independent
tutorial even easier, while ensuring that his design methodology is
still relevant to the latest databases, applications, and best
practices. Step by step, Database Design for Mere
Mortals®, Third Edition, shows you how
to design databases that are soundly structured, reliable, and
flexible, even in modern web applications....
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8. |  By: Michael Brackett Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 20-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Resource Design
Are you struggling with the formal design of your organization's data resource? Do you find yourself forced into generic data architectures and universal data models? Do you find yourself warping the business to fit a purchased application? Do you find yourself pushed into developing physical databases without formal logical design? Do you find disparate data throughout the organization? If the answer to any of these questions is Yes, then you need to read Data Resource Design to help guide you through a formal design process that produces a high quality data resource within a single...
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9. |  HBase in Action: Foreword by Michael Stack By: Nick Dimiduk and Amandeep Khurana Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HBase in Action: Foreword by Michael Stack Summary
HBase in Action has all the knowledge you need to design,
build, and run applications using HBase. First, it introduces you
to the fundamentals of distributed systems and large scale data
handling. Then, you'll explore real-world applications and code
samples with just enough theory to understand the practical
techniques. You'll see how to build applications with HBase and
take advantage of the MapReduce processing framework. And along the
way you'll learn patterns and best practices.
About the Technology
HBase is a NoSQL storage system designed for fast, random access
to large...
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10. |  Methods and Innovations for Multimedia Database Content Management By: Shu-Ching Chen; Mei-Ling Shyu Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 23-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Methods and Innovations for Multimedia Database Content Management Multimedia and its rich semantics are profligate in today’s digital environment. Databases and content management systems serve as essential tools to ensure that the endless supply of multimedia content are indexed and remain accessible to end users.Methods and Innovations for Multimedia Database Content Management highlights original research on new theories, algorithms, technologies, system design, and implementation in multimedia data engineering and management with an emphasis on automatic indexing, tagging, high-order ranking, and rule mining. This book is an ideal resource for...
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11. |  Fachwörterbuch Relationale Datenbanken kurz & gut By: C.J. Date Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag Publication Date: 01-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 09-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fachwörterbuch Relationale Datenbanken kurz & gut Vermeiden Sie Missverständnisse, die Probleme für Design, Programmierung und Nutzung von Datenbanksystemen mit sich bringen können. Ob Sie nun mit Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL oder PostgreSQL arbeiten: Das Fachwörterbuch Relationale Datenbanken - kurz & gut verhindert Verwirrungen um die genaue Bedeutung von Fachbegriffen (wie z.B. Attribut, 3NF, Eins-zu-Viele-Entsprechung, Prädikat, Wiederholungsgruppe oder Join-Abhängigkeit) und hilft Ihnen, den Erfolg Ihrer Datenbankprojekte sicherzustellen. Diese sorgfältig auf Klarheit, Genauigkeit und Vollständigkeit überprüfte Kurzreferenz erklärt...
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12. |  By: Rolf Scheuch; Tom Gansor; Colette Ziller Publisher: dpunkt Publication Date: 05-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 05-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Master Data Management
übersichtliche und produktneutrale Einführung in des MDM - durchgängiges Praxisprojekt verdeutlicht Inhalte und Umsetzung- mit vielen Checklisten und Fragenkatalogen ...
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13. |  How to Build a Business Rules Engine By: Malcolm Chisholm Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 29-OCT-2003 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Build a Business Rules Engine
· This is the only book that demonstrates how to develop a business rules engine. Covers user requirements, data modeling, metadata, and more. · A sample application is used throughout the book to illustrate concepts. The code for the sample application is available online at http://www.refdataportal.com. · Includes conceptual overview chapters suitable for management-level readers, including general introduction, business justification, development and implementation considerations, and more. · This is the only book that demonstrates how to develop a business rules engine. Covers user...
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14. |  The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 2: A Library of Data Models for Specific Industries By: Len Silverston Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-MAR-2001 Insert Date: 01-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 2: A Library of Data Models for Specific Industries
A quick and reliable way to build proven databases for core business functions
Industry experts raved about The Data Model Resource Book when it was first published in March 1997 because it provided a simple, cost-effective way to design databases for core business functions. Len Silverston has now revised and updated the hugely successful First Edition, while adding a companion volume to take care of more specific requirements of different businesses. Each volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM, which is sold separately. Each CD-ROM provides powerful design templates discussed in the books...
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15. |  Mastering Data Modeling: A User-Driven Approach By: John Carlis Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 09-NOV-2000 Insert Date: 21-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mastering Data Modeling: A User-Driven Approach Data modeling is one of the most critical phases in the database
application development process, but also the phase most likely to
fail. A master data modeler must come into any organization,
understand its data requirements, and skillfully model the data for
applications that most effectively serve organizational needs.
Mastering Data Modeling is a complete guide to
becoming a successful data modeler. Featuring a requirements-driven
approach, this book clearly explains fundamental concepts,
introduces a user-oriented data modeling notation, and describes a
rigorous, step-by-step process...
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16. |  By: Ben Klemens Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 06-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modeling with Data
Modeling with Data fully explains how to execute computationally intensive analyses on very large data sets, showing readers how to determine the best methods for solving a variety of different problems, how to create and debug statistical models, and how to run an analysis and evaluate the results. Ben Klemens introduces a set of open and unlimited tools, and uses them to demonstrate data management, analysis, and simulation techniques essential for dealing with large data sets and computationally intensive procedures. He then demonstrates how to easily apply these tools to the many...
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17. |  Relational Database Design and Implementation, 3rd Edition By: Jan L. Harrington Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 24-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 06-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Relational Database Design and Implementation, 3rd Edition
Fully revised, updated, and expanded, Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to the subject available for IT/IS professionals interested in honing their skills in database design, implementation, and administration. This book provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance, regardless of experience level or choice of DBMS. The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database...
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18. |  By: William Kent Publisher: Technics Publications Publication Date: 01-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 21-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Let's step back to the year 1978. Sony introduces hip portable music with the Walkman, Illinois Bell Company releases the first mobile phone, Space Invaders kicks off the video game craze, and William Kent writes Data and Reality. We have made amazing progress in the last four decades in terms of portable music, mobile communication, and entertainment, making devices such as the original Sony Walkman and suitcase-sized mobile phones museum pieces today. Yet remarkably, the book Data and Reality is just as relevant to the field of data management today as it was in 1978.
Data and Reality...
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19. |  Database Design and Relational Theory By: C.J. Date Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 17-APR-2012 Insert Date: 20-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Database Design and Relational Theory What makes this book different from others on database design? Many resources on design practice do little to explain the underlying theory, and books on design theory are aimed primarily at theoreticians. In this book, renowned expert Chris Date bridges the gap by introducing design theory in ways practitioners can understand—drawing on lessons learned over four decades of experience to demonstrate why proper database design is so critical in the first place....
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20. |  Data Modeling: Logical Database Design Publisher: Sideris Courseware Corp. Publication Date: 15-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 05-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Modeling: Logical Database Design
This guidebook, and its companion volume which follows, provide a solid basis from which one can successfully implement relational database, multidimensional data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) technologies. The principal objective of this initial course volume is to convey a practical and common sense guide to the theory and concepts of data modeling. Using these sophisticated techniques one can create an elegant logical design of a database. Within this course we discuss not only the premier modeling theories from the best industry experts but also present the practical and...
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