Paul,
You could try:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1558606726/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/103-8170352-9419859?%5Fencoding=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155
Not sure about the above, but it seems highly rated (even though there
are only 9 ratings).
All the books that I've liked over the years have been Oracle specific
like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072121203/qid=1113922379/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/103-8170352-9419859?v=glance&s=books
WARNING!!! Discussion of software that costs money to use for business
purposes follows!!!
At Oracle we've been working on a tool to 'replace access' (it's not
really there yet, it's more powerful in many ways and less user friendly
in some ways) for a number of years. I think I even showed a version of
it years ago (8 years ago?) at UNH to the group once. We now call the
tool HTMLDB. It allows the development of applications with a web based
front end against an Oracle database. It has some pretty nice features
including the ability to copy a spreadsheet/access database into a form
and have the tool automatically create tables (and lookup tables) for you.
I'm guessing that this is kind of similar to the PHP web admin tools
that others were talking about before, but hopefully it is a bit more
powerful.
HTMLDB on OTN:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/htmldb/index.html
Viewlet (flash) of HTMLDB in action:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/database/htmldb/viewlets/htmldb_quicktour_viewlet.html
As always you can download all Oracle software from
http://otn.oralce.com for personal use without sending Oracle any money.
(Here is the 'big daddy' of database design tools:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/designer/index.html)
We've also come up with a very low price point for Oracle Standard
Edition One: $750 for 5 users (5 user minimum, each additional user
would be $150) or $5,000/cpu for unlimited users with a limit of 2 cpus
to compete with other companies that offer low cost 'databases'. And of
course databases from Oracle really are ANSI SQL compliant. :)
Rich
Paul Lussier wrote:
All this talk about databases reminded me of a project I was working
on a while back in which I had some fundamental database design
questions, but not the time to properly research the answers. (of
course, like all great projects driven by marketing, the immediate
crisis which prompted the project was quickly solved by "changing
direction" and subsequently resulted in them forgetting I was even
doing anything to help them :(
At any rate, I found myself trying to set up several tables for a
database, but realized, that in general, other than gluing the tables
together with basic SQL queries wrapped up in a spiffy perl CGI, I
know next to nothing about "proper database design".
So, does anyone have any decent references or pointers to basic
relational database design? I'm looking for something generic to SQL,
and not tied to any specific implementation.
Thanks.
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