Relational Database Design Clearly Explained
Published in September 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
286 pages
978-0-12-326425-1 (ISBN)
Description
This work teaches database practitioners the principles of good relational database design. It discusses tradeoffs between theory and practice, for example when it's alright to violate a principle of good design in order to improve performance. The book also shows readers how to construct the SQL statements needed to install well-designed relational databases, and discusses other performance related database design issues, such as indexes and clustering.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-326425-1 (9780123264251)
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Jan L. Harrington
Relational Database Design Clearly Explained
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04/2002
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Morgan Kaufmann
€65.79
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By Jan l. Harrington
Content
Introduction. Viewing the Database World as Entities. The Relational Data Model. Normalization. Key Constraints. Configuring Columns. Indexing and Clustering. Views. Writing SQL Definition Statements.