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A friendly illustrated guide to designing and implementing your first database.
Grokking Relational Database Design makes the principles of designing relational databases approachable and engaging. Everything in this book is reinforced by hands-on exercises and examples.
In Grokking Relational Database Design, you’ll learn how to:
A well-constructed database is easy to understand, query, manage, and scale when your app needs to grow. In Grokking Relational Database Design you’ll learn the basics of relational database design including how to name fields and tables, which data to store where, how to eliminate repetition, good practices for data collection and hygiene, and much more. You won’t need a computer science degree or in-depth knowledge of programming—the book’s practical examples and down-to-earth definitions are beginner-friendly.
Grokking Relational Database Design makes the principles of designing relational databases approachable and engaging. Everything in this book is reinforced by hands-on exercises and examples.
In Grokking Relational Database Design, you’ll learn how to:
- Query and create databases using Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Design databases from scratch
- Implement and optimize database designs
- Take advantage of generative AI when designing databases
A well-constructed database is easy to understand, query, manage, and scale when your app needs to grow. In Grokking Relational Database Design you’ll learn the basics of relational database design including how to name fields and tables, which data to store where, how to eliminate repetition, good practices for data collection and hygiene, and much more. You won’t need a computer science degree or in-depth knowledge of programming—the book’s practical examples and down-to-earth definitions are beginner-friendly.
about the technology
Almost every business uses a relational database system. Whether you’re a software developer, an analyst creating reports and dashboards, or a business user just trying to pull the latest numbers, it pays to understand how a relational database operates. This friendly, easy-to-follow book guides you from square one through the basics of relational database design.about the book
Grokking Relational Database Design introduces the core skills you need to assemble and query tables using SQL. The clear explanations, intuitive illustrations, and hands-on projects make database theory come to life, even if you can’t tell a primary key from an inner join. As you go, you’ll design, implement, and optimize a database for an e-commerce application and explore how generative AI simplifies the mundane tasks of database designs.what's inside
- Define entities and their relationships
- Minimize anomalies and redundancy
- Use SQL to implement your designs
- Security, scalability, and performance
about the reader
For self-taught programmers, software engineers, data scientists, and business data users. No previous experience with relational databases assumed.If anyone is looking to improve their database design skills, they can’t go wrong with this book.
Goes beyond SQL syntax and explores the core principles. An invaluable resource!
Relational database design is best done right the first time. This book is a great help to achieve that!
Provides necessary notions to design and build databases that can stand the data challenges we face.
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April 15, 2025 by Brandon (DE)
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Database Design is a research field to me.
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May 14, 2024 by Wim M. (Zuid-Holland, NL)
“Long ago I learned SQL, but it's been quite some time since I last used it. My goal is to refresh my knowledge. I already read about things that are new to me, like RESTRICT and NO ACTION.”
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I want to refresh my memory on relational databases, and I'd like to know more on what database to choose for my next project.
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