Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Bagui, Sikha; Earp, Richard

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Series: Foundations of database design series
• Edition: 2ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Data, Databases, and the Software Engineering ProcessDataBuilding a DatabaseWhat is the Software Engineering Process?Entity Relationship Diagrams and the Software Engineering Life Cycle Phase 1: Get the Requirements for the Database Phase 2: Specify the Database Phase 3: Design the DatabaseData and Data ModelsFiles, Records, and Data ItemsMoving from 3 × 5 Cards to ComputersDatabase Models The Hierarchical ModelThe Network ModelThe Relational ModelThe Relational Model and Functional DependenciesFundamental Relational DatabaseRelational Database and SetsFunctional. Read more...

Abstract: Data, Databases, and the Software Engineering ProcessDataBuilding a DatabaseWhat is the Software Engineering Process?Entity Relationship Diagrams and the Software Engineering Life Cycle Phase 1: Get the Requirements for the Database Phase 2: Specify the Database Phase 3: Design the DatabaseData and Data ModelsFiles, Records, and Data ItemsMoving from 3 × 5 Cards to ComputersDatabase Models The Hierarchical ModelThe Network ModelThe Relational ModelThe Relational Model and Functional DependenciesFundamental Relational DatabaseRelational Database and SetsFunctional

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Data, Databases, and the Software Engineering Process
Chapter 2: Data and Data Models
Chapter 3: The Relational Model and Functional Dependencies
Chapter 4: The Basic ER Diagram: A Data Modeling Schema
Chapter 5: Beyond the First Entity Diagram
Chapter 6: Extending Relationships/Structural Constraints
Chapter 7: The Weak Entity
Chapter 8: Further Extensions for ER Diagrams with Binary Relationships
Chapter 9: Ternary and Higher-Order ER Diagrams
Chapter 10: The Enhanced Entity Relationship (EER) Model. Chapter 11: Relational Mapping and Reverse Engineering ER/EER DiagramsChapter 12: A Brief Overview of the Barker/Oracle-Like Model
Glossary
Back Cover.