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Summary: This is the database modeling bible
Review: Bob does a wonderful job of laying out the rules and really drives home the need to follow them precisly. This book is our bible for database design, if a question or argument arises as to where in the ERD something fits, we just go to the book and let Bob decide.This book is required reading for any database person on my team.
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Summary: Clear, entertaining
Review: Consice discussion of data normalization, easy to follow. Overall very good, but some of the examples are a little dated, and the CD won't run on my Mac.
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Summary: Clear, entertaining
Review: Consice discussion of data normalization, easy to follow. Overall very good, but some of the examples are a little dated, and the CD won't run on my Mac.
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Summary: A Most Excellent Book
Review: I am a professor here at Utah State University and I have been teaching the undergraduate database course at various places for +9 years as well as researching accounting and databases for 7 years. I quickly grew tired of standard database textbooks as they are either simply a glossary of terms or a series of mathematical proofs with little real-world value. Almost all college textbooks teach modeling elements but do not teach real world issues related to data modeling. This book really hits the critical data modeling issues. This book combined with a good SQL book is a much better choice for students that desire to become database professionals. A more advanced data modeling book would be the David Hay book. These are THE two best books on data modeling bar none!!!
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Summary: A Most Excellent Book
Review: I am a professor here at Utah State University and I have been teaching the undergraduate database course at various places for +9 years as well as researching accounting and databases for 7 years. I quickly grew tired of standard database textbooks as they are either simply a glossary of terms or a series of mathematical proofs with little real-world value. Almost all college textbooks teach modeling elements but do not teach real world issues related to data modeling. This book really hits the critical data modeling issues. This book combined with a good SQL book is a much better choice for students that desire to become database professionals. A more advanced data modeling book would be the David Hay book. These are THE two best books on data modeling bar none!!!
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Summary: This is the database modeling bible
Review: I found this book to be a refreshing approach to teaching data modeling. With the current confusion between "object models" and "data models", Bob does a good jobe of presenting the concepts fundamental to both. His sequence is unusual (discussing occurrences before classes), but I think this is useful. I definitely recommend it to anyone trying to learn the field.
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Summary: An original approach
Review: I found this book to be a refreshing approach to teaching data modeling. With the current confusion between "object models" and "data models", Bob does a good jobe of presenting the concepts fundamental to both. His sequence is unusual (discussing occurrences before classes), but I think this is useful. I definitely recommend it to anyone trying to learn the field.
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Summary: An original approach
Review: I found this book to be a refreshing approach to teaching data modeling. With the current confusion between "object models" and "data models", Bob does a good jobe of presenting the concepts fundamental to both. His sequence is unusual (discussing occurrences before classes), but I think this is useful. I definitely recommend it to anyone trying to learn the field.
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Summary: Its not for professionals
Review: I read the previous reviews for this book and thought I was finally getting myself a well written book on this complex topic but alas, the book only caused much frustration. The writing style of the author is very annoying to say the least. The author assumes the reader is a "dummy" and tries hard to be funny. He fails miserably at it! After spending three weeks trying to read the book, I walked away being more confused about the concepts I already knew. This book is not worth it if you ask me.
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Summary: Precise but entertaining and understandable
Review: Last year I saw several presentations of Bob in Dresden. Even though the majority of the audience were data modeling professionals Bob captured the audience up to the last minute. Attendees still talk about this event today because it has been so different from other theoretical and dry presentations. And this is true for his book too. Bobs style to present data modeling is easy to understand, good for many smiles in between, entertaining but still precise. Predicates is his favorite item and finding them is the most important and difficult part in data modeling. He uses lots and lots of simple examples taken from real life to identify items being predicates and those not being predicates. Just the discusson on predicates is worth reading the book but there is much more... Anybody, technical or non technical, being involved in a database project saves a lot of time and money by reading this book and gets a good understanding of what data modeling is about.
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