Ambler S.W., Sadalage P.J. Refactoring databases: Evolutionary database design

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. – 374 pages. This book is organized into four parts. The first part sets the foundation by describing the fundamental skills and philosophies that all IT professionals require to be effective at data-oriented activities. The second part describes techniques that enable evolutionary database development, showing that it is possible to take an iterative and incremental approach to data-oriented development. Th...

Material for this white paper was modified from Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Addison Wesley 2006) and the Jolt-Productivity Award winning Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer (Wiley Publishing 2004). – 13 pages. The goal of the Agile Data (AD) method is to define strategies that enable IT professionals to work together effectively on the data aspects of software systems. This isn...

Apress, 2007. - 300 pages. Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, youll learn how to discover and represent the details and scope of the problem in...

Course Technology, 2010. - 692 p. DATABASE SYSTEMS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND MANAGEMENT, NINTH EDITION, a market-leader for database texts, gives readers a solid foundation in practical database design and implementation. The book provides in-depth coverage of database design, demonstrating that the key to successful database implementation is in proper design of databases to fit within a larger strategic view of the data environment. -Updat...

Gillenson M. L. Fundamentals of database management systems. Wiley – 2012, 416 pages. ISBN: 9780470624708. A course in database management has become well established as a required course in both undergraduate and graduate management information systems degree programs. This is as it should be, considering the central position of the database field in the information systems environment. Indeed, a solid understanding of the fundamentals of data...

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, 2004. - 361 pages. Through clear language, step-by-step discussions, and quizzes at the end of each chapter, the author makes databases easy. Quickly learn the core skills needed to design, configure, manage, and manipulate databases, whether at work or at home. Topics such as exploring different database models, planning their design, minimizing redundant data, designing tables, applying database design concepts, and...

Издательство Springer, 2010, -753 pp. Introduced forty years ago, relational databases proved unusually successful and durable. However, relational database systems were not designed for modern applications and computers. As a result, specialized database systems now proliferate trying to capture various pieces of the database market. Database research is pulled into different directions, and specialized database conferences are created. Yet the...

Издательство Springer, 1998, -276 pp. In the early days of database research, issues related to database semantics played a prominent role, and papers discussing database models, conceptual design, integrity constraints and normalization often dominated major database conferences. This began to change more than a decade ago, and nowadays those issues do not appear to be part of the mainstream research. Why is this so? Has the field been exhauste...

IGI Global, 2011. - 392 p. Databases are designed to support data storage, processing, and retrieval activities related to data management. The use of databases in various applications has resulted in an enormous wealth of data, which populates many types of databases around the world. Advanced Database Query Systems: Techniques, Applications and Technologies focuses on technologies and methodologies of database queries, XML and metadata queries...

Издательство Springer, 2010, -155 pp. It has become highly desirable to provide users with flexible ways to query/search information over databases as simple as keyword search like Google search. This book surveys the recent developments on keyword search over databases, and focuses on finding structural information among objects in a database using a set of keywords. Such structural information to be returned can be either trees or subgraphs re...