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Title: The Data Modeling Handbook : A Best-Practice Approach to Building Quality Data Models by Michael C. Reingruber, William W. Gregory ISBN: 0-471-05290-6 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (13 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Very academic in nature, more theory than reality
Comment: Anyone that has been modeling very long will see this book for what it is ... after you look at it once, you'll put it on your bookshelf and leave it there. Save yourself the money ... There are much better reference books available. Try David Hay's book on patterns, or Len Silverston, or Graeme Simsion. Check out the DAMA reference guide .. at least it's built by actual practitioners.
The help screens on the Data modeling tools are more advanced in explaining data modeling than this book.
Probably great for theorists - managers or teachers that don't know what they are doing! But the real modelers will seek help elsewhere.
Rating: 1
Summary: Misleading or, if you want, wrong
Comment: The authors deny the fifth normal form and state special-case rules as if they were universal. Examples: Eliminate triads; Two entities cannot have more than one relationship. Although in some specific situations the advice might be valid, anyone who is trying to learn from the reading will be misled. Less harmful, even interesting, for a professor (to learn how not to approach the teaching of DB modeling).
Poor, underdocumented examples. Oversimplification. Unfortunately at the time I had only the title to choose from. Good thing most books now have a table of contents.
Database modeling still doesn't have strong references as database theory does (Date's, Ramakrishnan's, Elmasri's only to cite three). There are excellent theoretical (Thalheim's "Entity-Relationship Modeling" is good) and philosophical approaches (finally they re-published Kent's opera-prima "Data and Reality", fabulous).
The picture is poor when it comes to hands-on modeling. Bruce's "Designing Quality Databases..." is an exception. Good and useful for someone who is developing modeling expertise. But I especially don't recommend Reingruber&Gregory's book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good one to start a good model
Comment: It is a very good book for a Data base designer and a data modeler. I strongly recommand this book to all database people.
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Title: Data Modeler's Workbench: Tools and Techniques for Analysis and Design by Steve Hoberman ISBN: 0471111759 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 1: A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises by Len Silverston ISBN: 0471380237 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 2: A Library of Data Models for Specific Industries by Len Silverston ISBN: 0471353485 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought by David C. Hay, Richard Barker ISBN: 0932633293 Publisher: Dorset House Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Data Modeling Essentials 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Data Analysis, Design, and Innovation by Graeme C. Simsion, Graham C. Witt ISBN: 1576108724 Publisher: The Coriolis Group Pub. Date: 22 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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