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I want any web sites or books just for training on ERD and normalization. I want a lot of sample, practices, and case studies with recommended answers, to strengthen my skill in database design and avoid the poor database designs I've made.
Note: I don't need books to explain the concepts, what I need is practices, examples, and case studies with recommended answers.
Thanks in advance.
I would consider Object Role Modelling over ERM using NORMA or some such.
There is small group on linkedin about ORM, as well a short discussion over on dbaspot.
For normalization, I'd start with Wikipedia and then search
Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Diagram by Sikha Bagui and Richard Earp should be a good starting point.
The Database Management System lecture series, published by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), is another good resource.
I think the Database Programmer blog is worth reading. It's got some nice stuff on normalization, but I'm sure any tutorial that Google brought back would be sufficient.
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I know that this question is not directly related to programming in CakePHP, so I apologies in advance for that.
Is there a website/organization where I can pay for a 101 training in CakePHP with an experienced programmer who can take me from the very basics and lead through the development my first application. Teach me best practices, answering questions, offering guidance etc. Kind of like a supervisor/mentor over my work.
Please do not answer with: ‘Read the CakePHP book’ because… I am doing that, but still I have many other questions related to programing.
CakeDC does CakePHP training:
http://www.cakedc.com/training
"Additionally, if you'd prefer to have a more tailored training session
for you or your team we can provide specific training sessions as part
of our consultancy services. Please contact us for more information."
Update:
I contacted them awhile back with an inquiry to training our team, and never heard back. Not sure if they're no longer doing it, or what.
I'm looking to get a deeper knowledge of drools, and I was wondering if CLIPS skills and knowledge would be transferable to drools?
In particular, I'm wondering if the following book would help on the quest of getting a deeper knowledge of some of the principles behind drools?
Intelligent Systems: Principles, Paradigms and Pragmatics: Principles?
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There are several DROOLS books available on Amazon including two published this year (2013).
This question I found in my DBMS college question paper. I am confused whether it belongs to ER Diagram topic or something else. Please help.
It is related to whole DBMS processes and knowledge specially part of DBMS architecture/design process.
For the detailed explanation over the topic, yes this unbend under UML diagrams - ER diagrams.
I wondered if there is any site out there with some detailed examples of normalization and DB design in general. Any comments are welcome.
Wikipedia page and this Dev Shed page should give you a good start.
The following blog page has some links to some good articles on general database design.
The first about the "10 Common Database Design Mistakes" has a good outline of some common pitfalls
and problems seen when database design is not thoroughly planned.
I am currently learning Cocoa. However I am coming from a traditional Sybase/Oracle background using Powerbuilder. Having been spoiled by the 'power' of a datawindow for may years, I not sure that coredata or sqllite will satisfy my needs and ideas.
Basically I'm looking for some good reference sites, books, or just plain old advice on how to approach database development with Cocoa.
Any comments and advice are welcomed.
This is a pretty broad topic, but if you want to go down the Core Data route, check out this book http://pragprog.com/titles/mzcd/core-data
Core Data published by Pragmatic.
Core Data is a persistence solution that is highly object oriented and integrated with cocoa. In my opinion it is relatively easy to implement basic persistence with it.
Marcus Zarra, the author of the book I recommended also has a great Cocoa blog with lots of Core Data resources: http://www.cimgf.com/category/core-data/