Taylor and Francis Bagui, S: Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Diagrams

This comprehensive guide helps database designers and developers learn the ins and outs of entity-relationship (E-R) diagramming. Because E-R diagrams are so fundamental to database design, this book is an indispensable text for teaching computer science students the basics of database development. This second edition features more examples throughout the text, more focused exercises, as well as more coverage of ternary and higher-order ER diagrams, generalizations, and specializations. In addition, the authors provide a new in-depth chapter on reverse engineering along with a new, detailed look at functional dependencies and normal forms. ...