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Database Design for Smarties: Using UML for Data Modeling
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Author: Robert Muller
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 1558605150
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (February, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 15,845
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
UML and databases do live in the same world
Excellent intermediate text, but you should know at least the basic Universal Modeling Language symbols and have some knowledge of database architectures.
I read it when I'd been programming Oracle for a few months and wanted to learn UML as well as more about db design. What a deal, the same two topics in one book!
I came away with a deeper, and useful, understanding of both the structure of databases, and some practical uses for UML.
Rating: 1 out of 5
A cure for insomnia
This book is turgid and poorly written. I could not manage to get more than 1/2 way through the text as the concepts are poorly explained and the use of UML is surprisingly bad. To summarise: Poor use of UML
Concepts and ideas badly explained.
Difficult to read. A colleague (an oracle DBA) did not even manage to get as far as I did before giving up!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Outstanding synthesis of UML, OOD, & RDB design
I always wondered where I was supposed to go next after I finished my object model and stood at the edge of the OO world; how I would get from there to the world of relational database design? Now I know! The world is indeed round, and OOA, OOD and UML actually lead you right through the land of RDB design. I've actually built large projects just feeling my way through this step, but now I know that this approach is valid, theoretically sound, and will even lead me to the nirvana of fifth normal form without pain!
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