Database Design for Mere Mortals
On the advice of my boy Gary Hampson, I picked up Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design, Second Edition a while back. I finished it last night, and I can say that I’m mighty impressed.
Some may find Michael J. Hernandez’s process to be dumbed-down and tedious, but I guess it doesn’t bother me too much as a government contractor. The tools he gives are really good, and the examples are good at showing you where to go with your own projects. I think this would be useful even for folks who’re already using RDBMSs like, oh, Alex. [I actually should buy Alex a copy of this book as a thank-you for all his hard work on Tasks and WordPress.]
I have a couple projects cooking—surprise, surprise!—and this will be a big help.
Many thanks for the tip, Gary.
You’re a prince.
July 7th, 2004 at 17:02I’m all about supporting my peeps.
July 7th, 2004 at 17:27Don’t mention it. It’s title is perfect. For people who don’t work with databases as a profession, it’s a good primer. Now that your finished with that, you’re a candidate for books by Celko and Date. (And you would like to bounce any of your designs ideas off someone or would like some assistance, please remember to give me a shout.)
July 8th, 2004 at 14:00Books!
I received 2 books from my Amazon wish list today:
Geof got me Database Design for Mere Mortals. He read it and thought I could use it – what a guy!
July 13th, 2004 at 16:52Philip got me Getting Things Done, which had been recommended to me by several folks as contain…
Announcing ShowInfo
I’d like to announce ShowInfo, the concert information database that I’m working up to power the [rocksmyfaceoff.net] family of band fan-sites.
I’ve submitted a request for hosting on SourceForge, and I’m working through the database design with…
July 21st, 2004 at 11:030.0.1: Mission Statement and Mission Objectives.
In developing ShowInfo, I’ve been following the database design process laid out by Michael J. Hernandez in his text, Database Design for Mere Mortals™. [Readers of my regular Weblog will note that I picked this book up some time ago.
Hernan…
July 31st, 2004 at 16:10