Readings for Database Design and Management
                
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This is
not a textbook class. This is a doing class. You
will learn by reading material in your textbook and recommended sites on the
web and then applying the concepts.
"I hear it and I forget, I see it and I remember it, I do it and I learn
it." You will do a database design and implementation from beginning to end. You will post your ork on the Message Board. At each stage, you will get feedback from the prof and fellow students on how to improve it. With approximately a dozen students in the class, you will see good designs and poor ones. You will study several designs of other students carefully and offer suggestions on improvement based on what you have learned from the text and websites. You will see the advice from me and other students on how to improve poor ones. You will see your designs and your classmates' designs improve as each student incorporates the advice given. The text is
Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Fifth Edition
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I have added very little additional reading. Most of what I have to say is in the
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Without a lecture, how will you know where to get started? Reading. Much of the subject mater is discussed on websites. Database design is foreign to most people, even computer science students. Rather than reading the same explanation over and over trying to understand it, read the same topic as explained by different authors, with different examples. Each author will explain it from a different point of view. Your time will be more effectively used by reading several sources and you will be more successfully. Read not to memorize the text, but to be able to do the the assignments.
In addition to data base design, the web has lots of information on UML and diagramming.
Plan to read to text so that you can apply the concepts. There will be NO quizzes where you simply have to memorize the material and parrot it back. All quizzes are open book, open internet, open notes. Quizzes will require that you demonstrate mastery of the design skills practices in the previous weeks.
If you would like to use another textbook (in addition) to read different explanations of the same material, several other excellent books that have been used in prior terms are available at the Union County College Library (check at the reserved desk), as well as at used book stores and online (try Half.com, which has an extensive inventory and great prices.)
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Database
Solutions : A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Databases by Thomas
Connolly, Carolyn Begg was used for Fall 2001. It was chosen because it does
such a good job explaining the steps in database design. ISBN: 0-201-67476-9 Copyright: 2000 Price: $ 49.99 Binding: Paper Bound w/CD-ROM Pages: 448 Includes: 
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 Note his earlier edition (3rd, 1997) looks pretty much the same except it lacks the chapter on the Internet |
Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Fourth Edition
by Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel ISBN: 0-7600-1090-0 ©2000 776 pages |
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In the face-to-lace lecture version of this course the text has been: Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design &
Implementation, 7th Ed, by David M. Kroenke, copyright 2000, Prentice Hall,
ISBN 0130848166 601 pages. It has a companion web site: http://cw.prenhall.com/kroenke2/.
The material in the following chapters are the basis of the assignments in
the course: 1. Introduction to Database Processing. 2. Introduction to Database Development. 3. The Entity-Relationship Model. 5. The Relational Model and Normalization. 6. Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Models. 8. Foundations of Relational Implementation. 9. Structured Query Language. 10. Database Application Design. The 8th edition is out now so this can be gotten cheap. |
You may purchase one of more of these texts or you may also get them from a college library.
You may purchase them at UCC bookstore in Cranford or online. Or you can use a shopbot:
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to find the lowest price. Don't forget Half.com
Remember that database design and the Entry-Relationship modeling has been around pretty much unchanged for 20 years.
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