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Relational Database Design and Implementation

by Jan L. Harrington

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A structured guide to relational database design and SQL

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A structured guide to relational database design and SQL

Jan L. Harrington’s fourth edition frames relational databases as both a design problem and a practical tool for business information systems. It starts with foundational database concepts before moving into SQL for creating tables, adding data, and retrieving it. Alongside hands-on data work, the book addresses the relational model, entities, normalization, and Codd’s Rules, connecting these principles to data accuracy, usability, and performance. The later discussion of big data and NoSQL places traditional relational design within a broader database landscape. With its combination of theory and implementation, the book presents a substantial reference for building and managing relational database structures.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students learning database design and SQL
  • Database practitioners seeking grounding in relational theory and normalization
  • Technology professionals comparing relational and NoSQL approaches for data management

Themes

Relational database designSQLNormalizationData integrity and performanceBig data and NoSQL

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Book overview

Relational Database Design and Implementation: Clearly Explained, Fourth Edition, provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a database design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance.

Database systems underlie the large majority of business information systems. Most of those in use today are based on the relational data model, a way of representing data and data relationships using only two-dimensional tables. This book covers relational database theory as well as providing a solid introduction to SQL, the international standard for the relational database data manipulation language.

The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database design, then turns to creating, populating, and retrieving data using SQL. Topics such as the relational data model, normalization, data entities, and Codd's Rules (and why they are important) are covered clearly and concisely. In addition, the book looks at the impact of big data on relational databases and the option of using NoSQL databases for that purpose.

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