Information Modeling and Relational Databases, 2nd Edition

Foreword

by Dr. Gordon C. Everest, Professor Emeritus and Adjunct, MIS and DBMSCarlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA.

I am delighted and honored to write a foreword to this second edition. It gives me another opportunity to convince those in the world of data modeling that there is a better way. I am absolutely convinced that Object Role Modeling (ORM) is a better way to do data modeling. My underlying motive in this foreword is to sufficiently perk your interest to seriously study ORM, and this book is the best resource available to you.

Data modeling is the foundation of information systems development—if you don’t get the database design “right” then the systems you build will be like a house of cards, collapsing under ...