July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
30h 19m
English
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Chapter Notes
Full bibliographic entries for references are included in the bibliography at the back of this book. Codd (1969, 1970) introduced the relational model of data. For a historical discussion of these two papers, see Date (1998). Codd (1990) suggests future directions for the relational model. The classic paper that introduced Entity-Relationship modeling is Chen (1976). Kent (2000) is a reprint of a classic book that provides many insights into the nature of information and data.
Many papers on Object-Role Modeling are accessible at http://www.orm.net and at www.ormfoundation.org. Simsion and Witt (2005) provide a readable coverage of various data modeling topics. An overview of UML can be found in Booch et. al. (1999). Muller (