Database Development for Dummies | 
|  | | | Title: | Database Development for Dummies | | Author: | Allen G. Taylor | | Publisher: | For Dummies | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | December, 2000 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0764507524 / 9780764507526 | | List Price: | $29.99 | | You Save: | $10.20 | | Amazon Price: | $19.79 | |
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From ATMs to the personal finance, online shopping to networked information management, databases permeate every nook and cranny of our highly-connected, information-intensive world. Databases have become so integral to the business environment that, nowadays, it’s next to impossible to stay competitive without the assistance of some sort of database technology—no matter what type or size of business you run. But developing your own database can be very tricky. In fact, whether you want to keep records for a small business or run a large e-commerce website, developing the right database system can be a major challenge. Which is where this friendly guide comes in. From data modeling methods and development tools to Internet accessibility and security, Database Development For Dummies shows you, step-by-step, everything you need to know about building a custom system from the ground up. You’ll discover how to: - Model data accurately
- Design a reliable functional database
- Deliver robust relational databases on time and on budget
- Build a user-friendly database application
- Put your database on the Web
In plain English, author Allen Taylor acquaints you with the most popular data modeling methods, and he shows you how to systematically design and develop a system incorporating a database and one or more applications that operate on it. Important topics he explores include: - Understanding database architecture and how it has evolved
- Recognizing how database technology affects everyday life
- Using a structured approach to database development
- Creating an appropriate data model
- Developing a reliable relational design
- Understanding the complexities you’re likely to encounter in designing a database and how to simplify them
- Implementing your design using Microsoft Access 2000, SQL Server and other powerful database development tools
- Keeping your database secure
- Putting your database on the Internet
Today’s powerful, low-cost database development tools make it possible for virtually anybody to create their own database. Get Database Development For Dummies and discover what it takes to design, develop and implement a sophisticated database system tailored to you and your company’s current and future data storage and management needs.
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Customer Reviews:
• Use "database Design For Mere Mortals" Instead 04 May, 2001
This is the first of the "dummies" books that I've used, and probably the last. The author introduces a lot of jargon and complicated models early on and then proceeds to use terms interchangably, leave models abstract that would have benefited from metaphors, and produces examples that he fails to adequately explain. When things become complicated, he demures, reminding the reader that this is, after all, only an introduction.Perhaps I would have put my inability to use this book up to my own inadequacy when it comes to things technical, but after reading Michael Hernandez's Database Design for Mere Mortals I realized that the dummies' book was needlessly technical and theoretical.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AS1J1VT3GWMIN
• Database Development For Dummies Review 07 April, 2002
This book has a wealth of information. The author does a great job at passing his knowledge on to the reader. You'll learn even more than you expected.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2897Q5I69RH1I
• Learning About Databases 09 November, 2008
I found this book to be useful for conceptualizing building a database. However, I found some sections about the constructing the ER diagrams and normalizing the relations to be less than clear. I would have like more examples and more diagramming of the process.
SQL for Dummies by the same author is a better tutorial for DB development.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1XN6OWBYS6B40
• Great Book If It's What You're Looking For... 04 August, 2008
This is a great book on database theory. It will give you a solid understanding that is needed to design database schema for whatever system you are designing.
If you are looking for a more specific HOWTO type book so you can jump in immediately without learning the fundamentals, this isn't the book for you.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2C1HCJOT43UQC
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