ISBN0-13-221211-0

Much like Hoffer's other book, which focuses on an earlier stage in the Sys. Devel. Life Cycle (Analysis & Design), this is the next book in "the series".
This book goes over some of the fundamental concepts of modeling and relationship diagramming which were covered in the previous book. However, it picks up where the other left off and explain in-depth Database creation maintainence, and so on to a point where most can understand, and all can benefit from. Another good job from these strong Authors

This is a required textbook for an Intro to DB course. Once again, the University of Texas at Dallas has followed a constant pattern of requiring textbooks that are 1) Poorly organized/written books, 2) expensive and 3)The professor haven't read the book themselves AND are not using/following a required book when teaching their course! This said, my review of this book.

IT'S POORLY ORGANIZED AND DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW; NOT AN INTRO DB BOOK!

For example: "Relational Database" - The book begin this topic on "PAGE 11", but does not define nor clearly explain what this is; the book glorify how "...preliminary studies convinced management of the potential advantage of this approach...modern company should implement..." Then, it talks about "Implementing the Relational Database." Ok, but what the f**k is a Relational database! This continues on until finally at "PAGE 259" when it FINALLY defines what this is.

Good luck!

Indeed, a brilliant rendition of practical information. I am currently working as a chief technical designer in a financial data warehouse project for a fortune 100 company. Chapter 11 (Data Warehousing) unfolded some time-critical points.

I used this book in graduate school while taking the Database Management System course. The book has usefull information. It help me understand and practice normalization. Some unfamiliar concepts also were learnt from the book. I can recommend this book to anyone getting into the database world.

Our database teacher recommended this book. I bought this book and found it not an easy read. After going through the whole book still I could not understand how the database design process works. Then I went on google to look for some thing easy to understand. I found a book called "Relational database design for starters: Explained through a case study in Microsoft Access" by Akmal Masood. This book is very easy to understand and after finishing the book, I was able to understand how the database design works.