Appendix A. Recommended Reading

Should you be interested in pursuing an in-depth study of database technology, here are my recommendations for books on this subject. Keep in mind that these books are going to be challenging to read. The authors of these books presume that you have a fair amount of background in computers and programming.

Fleming, Candace C., and Barbara von Halle, Handbook of Relational Database Design. Reading, Mass.: Addsion Wesley Longman. The authors discuss the logical design of a relational database as well as its implementation in an RDBMS such as DB2. The book includes chapters on logical data modeling, normalization, Business Rules, SQL, and indexing methods.

Connolly, Thomas, Carolyn Begg, and Anne Strachan, Database Systems ...

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