Any recommendations for database design / data modeling / application
development?
Most 'database' books seem to focus a lot on administration and not much on
design and development.
Any good books I should look for?
Something that would help with conversion from a hierarchical database
(DL/I) to a relational database would be great! But I don't hold out much
hope that such a thing exists.

Thanks,
Frank


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Frank Swarbrick
Senior Developer/Analyst - Mainframe Applications
FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA

Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Data modelling:
Data Model Patterns Conventions of Thought by David C. Hay
The Data Model Resource Book by Len Silverston, W.H.Inmon, Kent
Graziano
Database design and application development for Oracle:
Effective Oracle by Design by Thomas Kyte
Expert Oracle Database Architecture by Thomas Kyte

You can look at my paper Do You have Data Waste or Data Base? at
http://www.gplivna.eu/papers/data_wa..._data_base.htm
which has links to several other books as well as some free online
resources.

Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu

Two of my favorite books about databases are: Database Design for Mere
Mortals and Sql Queries for Mere Mortals. The Database Design book is
useful, but the Queries book is outstanding.

John A.



On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:40:44 -0600, "Frank Swarbrick"
<Frank.Swarbrick (AT) efirstbank (DOT) com> wrote:

A good short introduction is also "Database Modelling in UML"
http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=9