9 CASE Tools for Logical Database Design
Database design is just one part of the analysis and design phase of creating effective business application software (see Figure 9.1), but it is often the part that is the most challenging and the most critical to performance. In the previous chapters, we explored the classic ways of creating efficient and effective database designs, including ER modeling and the transformation of the ER models into constructs by transformation rules. We also examined normalization, normal forms and denormalization, and specific topologies used in warehousing, such as star schema. All this information may leave your head spinning!
This chapter focuses on commercially available tools to simplify these design processes. ...
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