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Summary: An excellent primer on UML for database designers!
Review: This is an excellent tutorial to using UML and sound object-oriented techniques for the express purpose of designing data models for a database. Well written, it deserves a place on every database designer's bookshelf.
Rating:
Summary: An excellent primer on UML for database designers!
Review: This is an excellent tutorial to using UML and sound object-oriented techniques for the express purpose of designing data models for a database. Well written, it deserves a place on every database designer's bookshelf.
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Summary: Outstanding synthesis of UML, OOD, & RDB design
Review: This is perhaps the best book I've read about databases and UML. Muller provides insight about different RDBMS's and ORDMS's for each subject. The various characteristics of Oracle, Sybase and others are discussed in context to the subject of using UML to design databases. This is not a sales pitch for one product or another. My only complaints: there's no errata (though I'm not sure there needs to be one) and there's no online forum at the publishers site. I've enjoyed reading this book, Muller has kept this rather dry subject interesting.
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Summary: Should be considered required reading
Review: This is perhaps the best book I've read about databases and UML. Muller provides insight about different RDBMS's and ORDMS's for each subject. The various characteristics of Oracle, Sybase and others are discussed in context to the subject of using UML to design databases. This is not a sales pitch for one product or another. My only complaints: there's no errata (though I'm not sure there needs to be one) and there's no online forum at the publishers site. I've enjoyed reading this book, Muller has kept this rather dry subject interesting.
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Summary: Terrible title, very useful book
Review: While I hate the 'Complete Idiots", "* For Dummies" and "* Smarties" titles, this book was very valuable for getting up to speed with transitioning some of my existing DB applets to UML code. The examples provided offered a very clear path to undertanding the UML coding, and provided good examples to apply to my existing code. This book is well written, easy to follow, and quite useful for understanding the differences in the UML coding as opposed to my usual VB coding work. Recommened for developers that are already familiar with OOP, and that are looking to transition existing code to UML.
Rating:
Summary: Terrible title, very useful book
Review: While I hate the 'Complete Idiots", "* For Dummies" and "* Smarties" titles, this book was very valuable for getting up to speed with transitioning some of my existing DB applets to UML code. The examples provided offered a very clear path to undertanding the UML coding, and provided good examples to apply to my existing code. This book is well written, easy to follow, and quite useful for understanding the differences in the UML coding as opposed to my usual VB coding work. Recommened for developers that are already familiar with OOP, and that are looking to transition existing code to UML.
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