Re: Seeking Database Design Guide

Hi!,
        You could refer to Database Systems Management and Design by Pratt and
Adamski. It is a nice book. I donot remember the publishing house.

HTH.


At 10:53 PM 7/29/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>I've long been a critic of companies (I worked for one!) that put
>the PC-based "database du jour" in the hands of employees with a
>semester of DBase, expecting them to whip up a new database with
>important business data.  I keep arguing that without an
>understanding of database design concepts, the most adept PC user
>will still end up creating a database that looks like it was whipped
>up -- in a blender!
>
>Now it's time for the critic to take some of his own medicine.  My
>heritage as an RPG programmer is long on the "flat file" hardware --
>the 5280, the S/34 and S/36 -- but short on the relational aspects
>of the AS/400 (just since '94).  I want to bring my design skills up
>to standard to take advantage of the features DB2/400 offers.
>
>Your advice, please!  I've had lots of experience learning what
>_doesn't_ work.  I'd like to know what books or other sources this
>group would recommend -- not necessarily related to the 400, of
>course.  It's the relational design concepts and "lingo" I'm after.
>
>Thanks!
>David Thomas
>| Phone:  416-922-3899
>| Fax:    416-922-2213
>| E-Mail: dg.thomas@sympatico.ca
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