Data Modeling Essentials 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Data Analysis, Design, and Innovation

Written by leading practitioners, this guide to data analysis, design and innovation is a tutorial and reference for systems analysts, business analysts, specialist data modelers, database designers, and students requiring a practical understanding of a project. It includes many practical examples to illustrate choices available to modelers and criteria for selecting the best model. The book explores the difference between modeling business data requirements and designing and maintaining the resulting database, including the impact of universal server and data distribution. A revision of the first successful edition published by Coriolis in 1994, this book contains numerous updates and additional chapters to illustrate real world data modeling for commercial information systems.

From the back cover:

Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition provides expert tutelage for data modelers, business analysts and systems designers at all levels. Beginning with the basics, this book provides a thorough grounding in theory before guiding the reader through the various stages of applied data modeling and database design. Later chapters address advanced subjects, including business rules, data warehousing, enterprise–wide modeling and data management.

The third edition of this popular book retains its distinctive hallmarks of readability and usefulness, but has been given significantly expanded coverage and reorganized for greater reader comprehension. Authored by two leaders in the field, Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition is the ideal reference for professionals and students looking for a real–world perspective.

Features
Thorough coverage of the fundamentals and relevant theory.
Recognition and support for the creative side of the process.
Expanded coverage of applied data modeling includes new chapters on logical and physical database design.
New material describing a powerful technique for model verification.
Unique coverage of the practical and human aspects of modeling, such as working with business specialists, managing change, and resolving conflict.
Extensive online component including course notes and other teaching aids (www.mkp.com). ––This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Graeme C. Simsion (Melbourne, Australia) is Principal of Simsion Bowles & Associates. He has over 20 years of practical experience in data modeling and database design and is a frequent presenter at industry and academic forums.