I care what Christ Date thinks. I'm just waiting for someone to implement PostgresD :-)
and of course PostGISD on top of it :-) :-) dnrg wrote: > I highly recommend these as gentle, clear > introductions to relational database design: > > * Databases Demystified by Andy Oppel > * Beginning Database Design: From Novice to > Professional by Clare Churcher > > Read them both. They're the best I've found for basic > concepts and not inscrutably technical. Seems most > books in the field are either dull as a phone > directory or insultingly shallow, written for a > cognitively challenged audience. > > If one book is deficient with a particular concept, > check the other for an alternate explanation. > > The 2nd, although it has a generic-sounding title (and > there are some real stinkers under a similar moniker), > is a recent offering from APress books (2007 1st ed). > Invaluable for someone getting started. > > Granted, these books are for non-spatial relational > database design. > > Anything by Chris Date is good, but not for beginners. > Not sure anyone here cares what Chris Date has to say. > I was introduced to Chris Date and Fabian Pascal by an > ESRI ArcSDE developer in Redlands. So someone out > there cares about the RM. > > Thanks to all for the recommendations on PostGIS + > Google Maps API. Good stuff. > > Good luck. Hope this helps. > > Dana > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > -- Regards, Chris Hermansen · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+1.604.714.2878 · fax:+1.604.733.0631 Timberline Natural Resource Group · http://www.timberline.ca 401 · 958 West 8th Avenue · Vancouver BC · Canada · V5Z 1E5 C'est ma façon de parler. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
