Data Modeling Fundamentals: A Practical Guide for IT Professionals

✍ Scribed by Paulraj Ponniah

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 461
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a must have book that a Data Modeler will want to keep for a long time.
It discusses every aspect of the Data Modeling discipline.

Does not matter what DBMS you use the information in this book is priceless.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 10
I INTRODUCTION TO DATA MODELING......Page 26
1 Data Modeling: An Overview......Page 28
2 Methods, Techniques, and Symbols......Page 68
II DATA MODELING FUNDAMENTALS......Page 96
3 Anatomy of a Data Model......Page 98
4 Objects or Entities in Detail......Page 140
5 Attributes and Identifiers in Detail......Page 182
6 Relationship in Detail......Page 208
III DATA MODEL IMPLEMENTATION......Page 252
7 Data Model to Database Design......Page 254
8 Data Normalization......Page 296
9 Modeling for Decision-Support Systems......Page 320
IV PRACTICAL APPROACH TO DATA MODELING......Page 370
10 Ensuring Quality in the Data Model......Page 372
11 Agile Data Modeling in Practice......Page 400
12 Data Modeling: Practical Tips......Page 416
Bibliography......Page 448
Glossary......Page 450
Index......Page 458