Comments on: The database skeleton http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/15/the-database-skeleton/ Genealogy anywhere. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:22:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Ben http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/15/the-database-skeleton/#comment-571 Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:42:29 +0000 http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/15/the-database-skeleton/#comment-571 Mmm, very interesting. Thanks for the heads up! Mmm, very interesting. Thanks for the heads up!

]]> by: Dan Hanks http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/15/the-database-skeleton/#comment-562 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:56:53 +0000 http://www.beyondproject.org/2006/06/15/the-database-skeleton/#comment-562 For database design books you can't go wrong with anything written by C.J. Date. He recently published a book through O'Reilly called Database In Depth, (about 200 pgs, and quite approachable). His buddy Fabian Pascal also has some good books too. Be warned that they aren't keen on much of what goes on in the database world today, They're relational purists, but their stuff is all solid from a logical and mathematical perspective, and definitely worth reading. Their website http://dbdebunk.com is also full of good stuff. Having travelled it for quite a ways myself, be warned that this road (database design) can be long and arduous, and if you really get into the relational model be prepared to be disappointed in finding out that practically none of today's database engines faithfully implement the model. -- Dan For database design books you can’t go wrong with anything written by C.J. Date. He recently published a book through O’Reilly called Database In Depth, (about 200 pgs, and quite approachable).

His buddy Fabian Pascal also has some good books too. Be warned that they aren’t keen on much of what goes on in the database world today, They’re relational purists, but their stuff is all solid from a logical and mathematical perspective, and definitely worth reading. Their website http://dbdebunk.com is also full of good stuff.

Having travelled it for quite a ways myself, be warned that this road (database design) can be long and arduous, and if you really get into the relational model be prepared to be disappointed in finding out that practically none of today’s database engines faithfully implement the model.

– Dan

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