Beginning Relational Data Modeling, Second Edition

Data storage design, and awareness of how data needs to be utilized within an organization, is of prime importance in ensuring that company data systems work efficiently. If you need to know how to capture the information needs of a business system in a relational database model, but don’t know where to start, then this is the book for you.

Beginning Relational Data Modeling, Second Edition will lead you step-by-step through the process of developing an effective logical data model for your relational database. No previous data modeling experience is even required. The authors infuse the book with concise, straightforward wisdom to explain a usually complex, jargon-filled discipline. And examples are based on their extensive experience modeling for real business systems.

Previously published as Data modeling for everyone, this book introduces Integration Definition (IDEF1X) notation syntax, and walks through the process of defining conceptual, logical, and physical data models for database design. A running case study models the data and functions of the card game solitaire as it transforms into a computer version. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sharon Allen has worked in the field of data analysis for twenty-four years; ten as a business consumer of data and fourteen as a data/database modeler/architect. She has had the opportunity to experience many diverse industries - Medical, Aerospace, Entertainment (Hollywood), Manufacturing (toys, appliances, wet chemicals, metal part & assemblies), Transportation, Food Service, and is currently working for American Honda Motors as a Database Architect. She plans to finish a Masters Degree in Computer Science and possibly teach at a local college.

Evan Terry has been in the IT industry for more than 15 years as a programmer/analyst, systems engineer, custom software consultant, senior developer, data analyst, and data architect, serving government and the private sector. He firmly believes that in order to succeed at developing complex systems, the IT professional must truly understand the business processes he supports. Evan tries to bridge the gap between the technical and the nontechnical by understanding the perspectives of both and helping the two groups communicate effectively.