Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. Foreword
6. About the Author
   1. About the Contributing Authors
7. About the Technical Reviewers
8. Acknowledgments
9. Introduction
   1. Purpose of Database Design
   2. Structure of This Book
10. CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Database Concepts
    1. Database Design Phases
    2. Relational Data Structures
    3. Relationship Between Entities
    4. Data Access Language (SQL)
    5. Understanding Dependencies
    6. Summary
11. CHAPTER 2 The Language of Data Modeling
    1. Introduction to Data Modeling
    2. Entities
    3. Attributes
    4. Relationships
    5. Descriptive Information
    6. Alternative Modeling Methodologies
    7. Best Practices
    8. Summary
12. CHAPTER 3 Conceptual Data Modeling
    1. Understanding the Requirements
    2. Documenting the Process
    3. Requirements Gathering
    4. Identifying Objects and Processes
    5. Identifying Business Rules and Processes
    6. Finishing the Conceptual Model
    7. Best Practices
    8. Summary
13. CHAPTER 4 The Normalization Process
    1. Why Normalize?
    2. How Far to Normalize?
    3. The Process of Normalization
    4. Entity and Attribute Shape: First Normal Form
    5. Relationships Between Attributes
    6. Multivalued Dependencies in Entities
    7. Denormalization
    8. Best Practices
    9. Summary
    10. Bonus Example
    11. The Story of the Book So Far
14. CHAPTER 5 Implementing the Base Table Structures
    1. Reviewing the Logical Design
    2. Transforming the Design
    3. Implementing the Design
    4. Best Practices
    5. Summary
15. CHAPTER 6 Protecting the Integrity of Your Data
    1. Best Practices
    2. Automatic Data Protection
    3. Manual Data Protection
    4. More Best Practices
    5. Summary
16. CHAPTER 7 Patterns and Query Techniques
    1. Precalculated Values
    2. Binary Large Valued Objects (BLOB)
    3. Storing User-Specified Data
    4. Commonly Implemented Objects
    5. Anti-patterns
    6. Summary
    7. The Continuing Story of the Book So Far
17. CHAPTER 8 Securing Access to the Data
    1. Principals and Securables
    2. Database Security Overview
    3. Controlling Object Access Via T-SQL Coded Objects
    4. Views and Table-Valued Functions
    5. Obfuscating Data
    6. Monitoring and Auditing
    7. Best Practices
    8. Summary
18. CHAPTER 9 Table Structures and Indexing
    1. Physical Database Structure
    2. Indexes Overview
    3. Basic Index Structure
    4. Index Types
    5. Basics of Index Creation
    6. Basic Index Usage Patterns
    7. Advanced Index Usage Scenarios
    8. Best Practices
    9. Summary
19. CHAPTER 10 Coding for Concurrency
    1. What Is Concurrency?
    2. Query Optimization Basics
    3. OS and Hardware Issues
    4. Transactions
    5. SQL Server Concurrency Controls
    6. Coding for Integrity and Concurrency
    7. Best Practices
    8. Summary
20. CHAPTER 11 Considering Data Access Strategies
    1. Ad Hoc SQL
    2. Stored Procedures
    3. T-SQL and the CLR
    4. Best Practices
    5. Summary
21. APPENDIX A Codd's 12 Rules for an RDBMS
    1. Rule 1: The Information Rule
    2. Rule 2: Guaranteed Access Rule
    3. Rule 3: Systematic Treatment of NULL Values
    4. Rule 4: Dynamic Online Catalog Based on the Relational Model
    5. Rule 5: Comprehensive Data Sublanguage Rule
    6. Rule 6: View Updating Rule
    7. Rule 7: High-Level Insert, Update, and Delete
    8. Rule 8: Physical Data Independence
    9. Rule 9: Logical Data Independence
    10. Rule 10: Integrity Independence
    11. Rule 11: Distribution Independence
    12. Rule 12: Non-Subversion Rule
    13. Summary
22. APPENDIX B Scalar Datatype Reference
    1. Precise Numeric Data
    2. Date and Time Data
    3. Character Strings
    4. Binary Data
    5. Other Datatypes
    6. Not Simply Scalar Datatypes
23. Index