Re: A good book

If the purpose is to understand RM issues that must be dealt with during a design phase,
I suggest a publication written by Fabian PASCAL:

BUSINESS MODELING FOR DATABASE DESIGN other publications are as useful...I suggest reading them all as well..

They are written in a very concise and practical manner.

Chris Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Let's say you met someone who has a strong mathematical background, a
> long history of development of mainly business application software, a
> perfectly fine understanding of writing SQL queries in practical
> settings. This person understands that OO languages are somewhat
> arbitrary, but not particularly convinced that they are evil.
> Similarly, he is not convinced of the need for writing significant
> amounts of code in declarative style, nor that the existence of a simple
> formal mathematical model behind relational databases is necessarily
> exploitable to produce better software. Let's further say that you
> could get said person to read one book. What would it be?
>
> (Yes, this is somewhat autobiographical...)
>
> --
> Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer / Technical Trainer
> MindIQ Corporation
Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 08:04:01 CEST