UML for Database Design

Book Info
(Pearson Education) Text in UML for database design, using a running case study throughout the text to illustrate key concepts and techniques, with appendices containing the actual UML models from the case study. Discusses everything from moving to the business system model to creating tables from classes. Softcover. DLC: Database design.

Topics covered include:

* The business use case model
* Activity and sequence diagrams for modeling database functions and tasks
* Moving from the business to system model
* Class diagrams and statecharts
* Mapping classes to tables
* Transformation of attributes
* Rational's UML Profile for Database Design
* Creating tables from classes
* DDL scripts, component diagrams, and deployment diagrams
* Jump starting the database design process

A case study runs throughout the book to illustrate key concepts and techniques, and appendixes containing the actual UML models from this case study are used to catalog the type and extent of models that would be developed for such a system.

Practical, concrete, and based on real-life experience, UML for Database Design brings you exactly the information you need to begin working with the UML and take full advantage of the technology for high-quality database modeling and design.