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The Data Modeling Handbook : A Best-Practice Approach to Building Quality Data Models
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Author: Michael C. Reingruber, William W. Gregory
List Price: $80.00
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ISBN: 0471052906
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (December, 1994)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 27,701
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Very academic in nature, more theory than reality
Anyone that has been modeling very long will see this book for what it is ... after you look at it once, you'll put it on your bookshelf and leave it there. Save yourself the money ... There are much better reference books available. Try David Hay's book on patterns, or Len Silverston, or Graeme Simsion. Check out the DAMA reference guide .. at least it's built by actual practitioners.The help screens on the Data modeling tools are more advanced in explaining data modeling than this book. Probably great for theorists - managers or teachers that don't know what they are doing! But the real modelers will seek help elsewhere.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Misleading or, if you want, wrong
The authors deny the fifth normal form and state special-case rules as if they were universal. Examples: Eliminate triads; Two entities cannot have more than one relationship. Although in some specific situations the advice might be valid, anyone who is trying to learn from the reading will be misled. Less harmful, even interesting, for a professor (to learn how not to approach the teaching of DB modeling).Poor, underdocumented examples. Oversimplification. Unfortunately at the time I had only the title to choose from. Good thing most books now have a table of contents. Database modeling still doesn't have strong references as database theory does (Date's, Ramakrishnan's, Elmasri's only to cite three). There are excellent theoretical (Thalheim's "Entity-Relationship Modeling" is good) and philosophical approaches (finally they re-published Kent's opera-prima "Data and Reality", fabulous). The picture is poor when it comes to hands-on modeling. Bruce's "Designing Quality Databases..." is an exception. Good and useful for someone who is developing modeling expertise. But I especially don't recommend Reingruber&Gregory's book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very good one to start a good model
It is a very good book for a Data base designer and a data modeler. I strongly recommand this book to all database people.
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