Database Design for Mere Mortals: 25th Anniversary Edition

The #1 Easy, Commonsense Guide to Database Design―Now Updated
Foreword by Michelle Poolet, Mount Vernon Data Systems LLC
Database Design for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide respect as the simplest way to learn relational database design. Now, this hands-on, software independent tutorial is even clearer and easier to use.
Step by step, this new 25th Anniversary Edition shows you how to design modern databases that are soundly structured, reliable, and flexible, even in the latest online applications. Michael Hernandez guides you through everything from planning to defining tables, fields, keys, table relationships, business rules, and views. You will learn practical ways to improve data integrity, how to avoid common mistakes, and when to break the rules. Updated review questions and figures help you learn these techniques more easily and effectively.
Understand database types, models, and design terminologyPerform interviews to efficiently capture requirements―even if everyone works remotelySet clear design objectives and transform them into effective designsAnalyze a current database so you can identify ways to improve itEstablish table structures and relationships, assign primary keys, set field specifications, and set up viewsEnsure the correct level of data integrity for each databaseIdentify and establish business rulesPreview and prepare for the future of relational databases
Whatever relational database systems you use, Hernandez will help you design databases that are robust and trustworthy. Never designed a database before? Settling for inadequate generic designs? Running existing databases that need improvement? Start here.
From the Publisher

How This Book is Different

Many database design books on the market include chapters on implementing the database within a specific database product, and some books even seem to meld the design and implementation phases together and a reader can have difficulty obtaining any useful or relevant information from the implementation chapters if he or she doesn’t work with the particular database software or programming language that the book incorporates.

This book deals with only the logical design phase of the overall development process, and the book’s main purpose is to explain the process of relational database design without using the advanced, orthodox methodologies.

This book is easy to read.

Many of the database design books on the market are highly technical and can be difficult to assimilate. I think most of these books can be confusing and overwhelming if you are not a computer science major, database theorist, or experienced database developer.

The design principles you’ll learn within these pages are easy to understand and remember, and the examples are common and generic enough to be relevant to a wide variety of situations.

When you finish reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge and tools necessary to create a good relational database structure. I’m confident that this entire approach will work for a majority of developers and the databases they need to create.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 17, 2020
Edition ‏ : ‎ 4th
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0136788041
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0136788041
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1.23 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #126,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Microsoft Access Database Guides #3 in Microsoft SQL Server #3 in Database Storage & Design
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