17 Aug 2000

Our Archived Software Tool Reviews

Software as Alchemy or Science?

Model Driven Development

Best
(and worst)
Design Practices

Lemons, Lemmings,
and Red Herrings

Relational
Design Links
and Reading List

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1997-2000
Applied
Information
Science

Where do Information Systems Start?
Data Modeling vs. Database Design
Data modeling and Methodologies
Data Flow Diagrams (DFD)
Object Role Modeling
IDEF
Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data models

Logical Modeling: a presentation to the
PowerBuilder Developers' Conference, August 1996 Relational theory versus entity relationship diagramming

• Existence, uniqueness, and identityDistinguishing Structure from Behavior in Relational DatabasesRelational keysPrimary and foreign keys
• Technical (Surrogate, Synthetic, Pseudo, Serial) Keys

Reserved wordsOur Bibliography is way out of date. So many books are published every month on computer technology and software that it is impossible for us to keep up. We just browse Amazon or Barnes & Noble.