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Database Modeling with Microsoft® Visio for Enterprise Architects (The Morgan Kaufmann...
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by Terry A. Halpin, Ken Evans, Pat Hallock, and Bill Maclean
Sales Rank: 200958
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List Price: $71.95
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Paperback: 425 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition August 28, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558609199
ISBN-13: 978-1558609198
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
Book Description
Learn database modeling using ORM. Perfect for users of Visual Studio .NET for Enterprise Architects and subscribers to MSDN.
Product Description
This book is for database designers and database administrators using Visio, which is the database component of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET for Enterprise Architects suite, also included in MSDN subscriptions. This is the only guide to this product that tells DBAs how to get their job done. Although primarily focused on tool features, the book also provides an introduction to data modeling, and includes practical advice on managing database projects. The principal author was the program manager of VEA's database modeling solutions.
· Explains how to model databases with Microsoft® Visio for Enterprise Architects (VEA), focusing on tool features.
· Provides a platform-independent introduction to data modeling using both Object Role Modeling (ORM) and Entity Relationship Modeling (ERM), and includes practical advice on managing database projects.
· Additional ORM models, course notes, and add-ins available online.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book allows you to make the most of the database modeling aspect of Visio for Enterprise Architects (VEA). For me finding my way around a new design environment is always time consuming, but following along with the first few chapters made it relatively painless this time. The step-by-step sequences contain not only the usual click this / type that instructions, but often also the reason WHY things are done that way. Sometimes the instructions even anticipate where a newcomer might go wrong. Here is an example from the section that introduces the user interface: "If you unxpectedly get a screen that looks like Figure 3-12 (a screendump with the the menu, toolbar and not much else) you have accidentally hidden the database task pane and should click on View
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Database Modeling with Microsoft® Visio for Enterprise Architects (The Morgan Kaufmann...
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