Database Design for Mere Mortals®: A Hands-on Guide to Relational Database Design, Third Edition

Foreword

To the Third Edition

Here it is, ten years later, and Mike and I cross paths even less than we used to. For those who were unaware, we share the same birthday (although he’s much older than me, at least one full year), and we meet up at least once each year and congratulate ourselves for making it another year. It’s also funny how Microsoft “reboots” its technology every ten years or so, and now, revisiting the foreword I wrote ten years ago, nothing much has changed—I’m still hip-deep in a new Microsoft technology, but this time it’s all about WinRT and Windows 8, rather than .NET. One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is the need for carefully planned and executed database design. Nothing Mike wrote in his original volume has changed ...