Recommendations for good book and/or online documentation for Entity Relationship Diagrams

Question

Hi there,

The wiki page on ERD has a lot of useful information, but I was wondering if you had any recommendations for good books and/or online documentation for a more in-depth description of ERD's?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Most books on SQL and even database design skim over ERDs fairly quickly. We used the book Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management when I took a database design course in college (we used an older edition). It spends quite a bit of time on creating ERDs in the chapters on design and normalization. I recommend it.

Answer 2

Try the following (FREE):

http://www.tomjewett.com/dbdesign/dbdesign.php?page=intro.html http://www.jepstone.net/papers/web_uml_patterns/slides/toot-1.html