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PicardsShineyHead
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4 Posts

Posted - 2009-11-10 : 10:29:12

I'm looking to get savvy in DB design...

I work for an engineering corporation, so the sales examples that most DB books have are completely lost on me...

My main functions are:

Engineering issue management and project management
Management visibility... Dashboards, workflow, etc..

What books out there are better for those specific designs?

Thanks a million folks!

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2009-11-10 : 10:38:29

http://www.databasedesign-resource.com/normal-forms.html

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-data-modeling.htm

http://www.agiledata.org/essays/dataModeling101.html

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dportas
Yak Posting Veteran

53 Posts

Posted - 2009-11-10 : 15:05:36

Data modelling skills are pretty generic. They shouldn't generally be tied to any one business domain.

Among my favourite books are:
Information Modeling and Relational Databases by Terry Halpin
Practical Issues in Database Management by Fabian Pascal

Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2009-11-10 : 16:38:25

Why bother learning how to model when you can just steal?
http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/

CODO ERGO SUM

behrman
Yak Posting Veteran

76 Posts

Posted - 2009-11-28 : 07:31:57

Hi.
In my opinion, you can refer to the url below:
http://www.tekstenuitleg.net/en/articles/software/database-design-tutorial/intro.html
http://www.geekgirls.com/menu_databases.htm
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/DB-Design/1
Regards,
behrman.

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