[postgis-users] Database design book recommendations for the person who asked

[Chris Hermansen]

I care what Christ Date thinks.

I'm just waiting for someone to implement PostgresD :-)

and of course PostGISD on top of it :-) :-)

dnrg wrote:
> I highly recommend these as gentle, clear
> introductions to relational database design:
>
> * Databases Demystified by Andy Oppel
> * Beginning Database Design: From Novice to
> Professional by Clare Churcher
>
> Read them both. They're the best I've found for basic
> concepts and not inscrutably technical. Seems most
> books in the field are either dull as a phone
> directory or insultingly shallow, written for a
> cognitively challenged audience.
>
> If one book is deficient with a particular concept,
> check the other for an alternate explanation.
>
> The 2nd, although it has a generic-sounding title (and
> there are some real stinkers under a similar moniker),
> is a recent offering from APress books (2007 1st ed).
> Invaluable for someone getting started.
>
> Granted, these books are for non-spatial relational
> database design.
>
> Anything by Chris Date is good, but not for beginners.
> Not sure anyone here cares what Chris Date has to say.
> I was introduced to Chris Date and Fabian Pascal by an
> ESRI ArcSDE developer in Redlands. So someone out
> there cares about the RM.
>
> Thanks to all for the recommendations on PostGIS +
> Google Maps API. Good stuff.
>
> Good luck. Hope this helps.
>
> Dana
>
>
>
>
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