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How This Book is Different
Many database design books on the market include chapters on implementing the database within a specific database product, and some books even seem to meld the design and implementation phases together and a reader can have difficulty obtaining any useful or relevant information from the implementation chapters if he or she doesn’t work with the particular database software or programming language that the book incorporates.
This book deals with only the logical design phase of the overall development process, and the book’s main purpose is to explain the process of relational database design without using the advanced, orthodox methodologies.
This book is easy to read.
Many of the database design books on the market are highly technical and can be difficult to assimilate. I think most of these books can be confusing and overwhelming if you are not a computer science major, database theorist, or experienced database developer.
The design principles you’ll learn within these pages are easy to understand and remember, and the examples are common and generic enough to be relevant to a wide variety of situations.
When you finish reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge and tools necessary to create a good relational database structure. I’m confident that this entire approach will work for a majority of developers and the databases they need to create.