Re: A good book

Roy Hann wrote:
> "Cimode" <cimode_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Cimode wrote:
> > The objectives of
> > BUSINESS MODELING FOR DATABASE DESIGN
>
> Cimode has failed to point out that this is not a book but a paper,
> available only from www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/764907.htm.
True..Thanks for specifying...I guess one develops less patience with years reading about RM...Quality is so much important than quantity....

Fabian PASCAL have and advantage I appreciate in papers: it is concise, clear and coherent...As you rightfully state, it depends where you start from...

> I am certain it is informative and to be highly recommended, but I doubt it
> offers the kind of epiphany the OP seems to be looking for. I am certain
> such a book could be written, but I am also certain it hasn't been. I have
> been a long-time reader of the relational literature (over 20 years) but the
> nearest I came to a pulse-racing aha! moment was when I was experimenting
> with transition constraints, jury-rigged using bits of SQL. It was
> butt-ugly but I suddenly realized just how much application code could be
> dispensed with. But then again, many of my students have an aha! moment
> when I show them the set-oriented solution compared with the row-oriented
> solution to the same problem. I suspect therefore that what it takes to
> impress you will depend on where you are starting from. If you don't
> realize you have a big problem, a solution is unlikely to be amazing.
Interesting...

> I am reminded of the story, supposedly from the early part of the 20th
> century, of an army officer showing a desert sheik an aeroplane doing
> aerobatics. "Isn't it amazing?", asked the army officer, clearly impressed
> himself. To which the sheik asked, "Isn't it supposed to do that?"
>
> Roy
>
> PS: I wonder if the best prospect for the OP's kind of book would be an
> O'Reilly "Dataphor in a Nutshell"! :-)
Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 14:22:10 CEST