Beginning Database Design, 2nd Edition

Foreword.......................................................................................................................xv
About the Author ....................................................................................................... xvii
About the Technical Reviewer...................................................................................... xix
Acknowledgments........................................................................................................ xxi
Introduction................................................................................................................ xxiii
■■Chapter 1: What Can Go Wrong....................................................................................1
■■Chapter 2: Guided Tour of the Development Process...................................................9
■■Chapter 3: Initial Requirements and Use Cases.........................................................25
■■Chapter 4: Learning from the Data Model..................................................................43
■■Chapter 5: Developing a Data Model..........................................................................59
■■Chapter 6: Generalization and Specialization.............................................................75
■■Chapter 7: From Data Model to Relational Database Design......................................93
■■Chapter 8: Normalization..........................................................................................113
■■Chapter 9: More on Keys and Constraints................................................................129
■■Chapter 10: Query Basics.........................................................................................141
■■Chapter 11: User Interface.......................................................................................157
■■Chapter 12: Other Implementations.........................................................................169
■■Appendix...................................................................................................................189
Index............................................................................................................................221