Date: 08/18/05 (SQL Server)    Keywords: programming, database, sql

As part of my job I use T-SQL, mostly for writing stored procedures. So I'm familiar w/ select/insert/update/delete/cursor/view etc.. But I never created a complicated database or a table schema from scratch. We have a DBA who usually does that.

Now, our DBA is swamped, so my boss wants me to take a part of our project and design a database for it (to be reviewd by our DBA). While it's flattering that she thinks so highly of my abilities, I feel that I need some serious education before I take this on.

Please, advise me on a good book on database design!!! Preferably a clearly-written easy-to-read one (think Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language ", not Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language"). If you don't know an easy-to-read one, a hard-to-read-but-very-informative will do!

TIA

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