Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!ksr!reiner From: reiner@ksr.com (David Reiner) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Book titles for database design Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 14:05:41 GMT References: <1991Jun12.185009.14855@digi.lonestar.org> Sender: news@ksr.com Distribution: usa Organization: Kendall Square Research, Waltham, MA Lines: 38 In-reply-to: ghuffman@digi.lonestar.org's message of 12 Jun 91 14:50:09 EDT In article <1991Jun12.185009.14855@digi.lonestar.org> ghuffman@digi.lonestar.org (Gregory Huffman) writes: > Could you nice database experts inform a computer literate but database > illiterate person of some good books on database design fundamentals? Here are the best, IMO. Codes are: C=conceptual design, L=logical design, P=physical design, F=file orientation. (1) Database Modeling and Design: The Entity-Relationship Approach, Teorey (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1990) [CLP] (2) Conceptual Database Design: An Entity-Relationship Approach, Batini, Ceri, and Navathe, Benjamin-Cummings (to be published in July, 1991) [CL] (3) Handbook of Relational Database Design, Fleming and von Halle (Addison-Wesley, 1989) [LP, clear steps] (4) An Introduction to Database Design, Saltzberg (Academic Press, 1986) [LP] (5) Database Analysis and Design, Hawryszkiewycz (Science Research Associates,1984) [CLP] (6) Design of Database Structures, Teorey and Fry (Prentice Hall, 1982) [CLP] (7) File Organization for Database Design, Wiederhold (McGraw Hill, 1987) [F] If you are particularly interested in automated design tools, (2) has an excellent chapter on them. Also /* commercial on */ I have a limited number of copies of comprehensive tutorial notes from a 5-hour tutorial on Automating Database Design that I gave last year, available for $45 /* commercial off */. David Reiner Kendall Square Research 170 Tracer Lane Waltham, MA 02154 reiner@ksr.com