Introduction
I often ask myself, “Why do I do this? Why am I writing another edition of this book? Is it worth it? Isn’t there anything else that I could be doing that would be more beneficial to me, my family, or the human race? Well, of course there is. The fact is, however, I generally love relational databases, I love to write, and I want to help other people get better at what they do.
When I was first getting started designing databases, I learned from a few great mentors, but as I wanted to progress, I started looking for material on database design, and there wasn’t much around. The best book I found was an edition of Chris Date’s An Introduction to Database Systems (Addison Wesley, 2003), and I read as much as I could comprehend. The ...
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