Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!s26g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Cimode" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: A good book Date: 6 Jul 2006 23:04:01 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1152252241.485354.324010@s26g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.230.226.33 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1152252247 5755 127.0.0.1 (7 Jul 2006 06:04:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:04:07 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s26g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.230.226.33; posting-account=XWbNBg0AAABXMdLVqoM3R9n-RIU90_cb Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:43137 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