Fabian Pascal, THE DBDEBUNK GUIDE TO MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT DATA FUNDAMENTALS - A DESK REFERENCE FOR THE THINKING DATA PROFESSIONAL AND USER (October 2016)
(Description and Excerpts from Preface and David McGoveran's Foreword)
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This guide consists of 50 sections 1-3 pages long, each based on a carefully selected dbdebunk.com Q&A. Each documents and debunks one or more major common and entrenched myths/misconceptions/fallacies about data and relational fundamentals and discusses the practical implications thereof.
Instead of a Table of Content, there is an index of misconception categories:
- Data independence (logical, integrity, physical)
- Data integrity (business rules, integrity constraints, database consistency)
- Data models (relational, hierarchic, network)
- Relational data sub-language (vs. computationally complete language)
- Database and application-specific functions
- Domains (simple, non-simple, data types)
- Entity supertype-subtypes (and inapplicable data)
- Keys (natural, primary, surrogate)
- Levels of representation (conceptual, logical, physical)
- Missing data (NULL, many-valued logics)
- Normalization, further normalization, denormalization, normal forms
- Relational Data Model
- Relations (base, derived) vs. R-tables
- SQL and relational fidelity
- Types of model (conceptual, logical, physical, data)
- "Unstructured data"
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Fabian Pascal
Founder, Publisher, Editor and Debunker-in-Chief
Just ordered the book. I would also be interested in a printed copy. Please inform me when you will print te book.
ReplyDeleteWill do. But it may not happen in the near future.
DeleteI came to this book based on a review by Davide Mauri. I does sound like a good read and I am always up for a bit of philosophy with my database work.
ReplyDeleteAre you thinking about producing an eBook? Perhaps as a companion piece?
Hi, I have followed your work for some time (too long and much for it to be for free). Would like to purchase to help my work, by mail, and need mailing address if a url to mailing address is available. -D
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