Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 976 pages
- Published by: Morgan Kaufmann
- Edition: 2nd Edition March 7, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0123735688
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0123735683
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches
- Weighs: 3.9 pounds
Product Review
This book is an great introduction to both information modeling in ORM and relational databases. The book is very clearly written in a step-by-step manner, and contains an abundance of well-chosen examples illuminating practice and theory in information modeling. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in conceptual modeling and databases.
Dr. Herman Balsters, Director of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Product Description
Information Modeling and Relational Databases, second edition, provides an introduction to ORM (Object-Role Modeling)and much more. In fact, it is the only book to go beyond introductory coverage and provide all of the in-depth instruction you need to transform knowledge from domain experts into a sound database design. This book is intended for anyone with a stake in the accuracy and efficacy of databases: systems analysts, information modelers, database designers and administrators, and programmers.
Terry Halpin, a pioneer in the development of ORM, blends conceptual information with practical instruction that will let you begin using ORM effectively as soon as possible. Supported by examples, exercises, and useful background information, his step-by-step approach teaches you to develop a natural-language-based ORM model, and then, where needed, abstract ER and UML models from it. This book will quickly make you proficient in the modeling technique that is proving vital to the development of accurate and efficient databases that best meet real business objectives.
*Presents the most indepth coverage of Object-Role Modeling available anywhere, including a thorough update of the book for ORM2, as well as UML2 and E-R (Entity-Relationship) modeling.
*Includes clear coverage of relational database concepts, and the latest developments in SQL and XML, including a new chapter on the impact of XML on information modeling, exchange and transformation.
* New and improved case studies and exercises are provided for many topics.
* The book's associated web site provides answers to exercises, appendices, advanced SQL queries, and links to downloadable ORM tools.
Reader ReviewsThis new edition of Information Modeling and Relational Databases maintains its predecessor's achievement of being the best, most complete book out there on design of information systems, and particularly of database schemas -- and of seeming a few decades ahead of the rest of the pack! The relational database theory world seems to move at a rather glacier-like pace -- with the result that some of the schema design methods still in common use have stayed well past their "obsolete by" date. But as a reviewer of the first edition said, this book presents MATURE database design technology; and it can only be hoped that the database design world will sooner, rather than later, realize the immense, and immensely practical, value of the mature theory and design procedure that this book presents. Do you want to be able to arrive at the correct schema the first time? or even to know whether you've reached it or not? This is the book that shows you how, and gives you a rich, formal modeling notation that has very significant and improving tool support. Terry and Tony have both added very valuable new chapters to the book, and expanded and updated the other chapters, so that this is a very much improved book -- as amazing as that may seem to those (like me) who loved the first edition. This book will, in my opinion, be setting the standard for books on information system design for many years to come.
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