Conceptual schema & relational database design / Terry Halpin
- Bib ID:
- 2119627
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Halpin, Terence A. (Terence Aidan)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Sidney ; Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, c1995
- xii, 547 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0133557022
- 0133551022 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Conceptual Schema and Relational Database Design looks in detail at object-role modeling (ORM), based on extended NIAM, including a step-by-step design procedure which exploits both natural language and intuitive graphic notations. Features include numerous end-of-chapter exercises to test student understanding, end-of-chapter summaries, a glossary of technical terms and symbols, examples and applications to enhance readability and understanding, and answers to selected questions.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Information levels
- 3. Developing an information system
- 4. Uniqueness constraints
- 5. Mandatory roles
- 6. Value, set comparison and subtype constraints
- 7. Other constraints and final checks
- 8. Relational implementation
- 9. Conceptual schema transformations
- 10. Other design methods, issues and trends
- Appendix A: Hardware and software generations
- Appendix B: Subtype matrices
- Appendix C: Introduction to SQL
- Appendix D: CASE tool support
- ORM glossary.
- Notes:
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- Rev. ed. of: Conceptual schema and relational database design /G.M. Nijssen, T.A. Halpin. 1989.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-535) and index.
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- Conceptual schema and relational database design
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- Publication date:
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