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

[Martin Davis]

Or would that be PostgreD ?  :-)

Chris Hermansen wrote:
> I care what Christ Date thinks.
>
> I'm just waiting for someone to implement PostgresD :-)
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> and of course PostGISD on top of it :-) :-)
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> dnrg wrote:
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>> 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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