Description
Essential Skills--Made Easy
Learn how to create data models that allow complex data to be analyzed, manipulated, extracted, and reported upon accurately. Data Modeling: A Beginner's Guide teaches you techniques for gathering business requirements and using them to produce conceptual, logical, and physical database designs. You'll get details on Unified Modeling Language (UML), normalization, incorporating business rules, handling temporal data, and analytical database design. The methods presented in this fast-paced tutorial are applicable to any database management system, regardless of vendor.
Designed for Easy Learning
- Key Skills & Concepts--Chapter-opening lists of specific skills covered in the chapter
- Ask the expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips
- Try This--Hands-on exercises that show you how to apply your skills
- Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered
- Self Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge
Andy Oppel has taught database technology for the University of California Extension for more than 25 years. He is the author of Databases Demystified, SQL Demystified, and Databases: A Beginner's Guide, and the co-author of SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition, and SQL: The Complete Reference, Third Edition.
Author: Andy Oppel
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.26h x 7.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780071623988
ISBN10: 0071623981
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Data Science | Data Modeling & Design
- Computers | Database Administration & Management
- Computers | Certification Guides | General
About the Author
Andy Oppel has taught database technology for the University of California for more than 20 years. He is the bestselling author of Databases Demystified, SQL Demystified, and Databases: A Beginner's Guide and co-author of SQL: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition.
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