victor@cs.albany.edu (Victor @ The Concrete Museum) (12/15/89)
Could someone direct me to some good survey articles on the ER model? I would prefer something other than a book reference because I'm more interested in a self-contained, but shorter exposition. Thanks!! - victor
UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (12/19/89)
In article <2294@leah.Albany.Edu>, victor@cs.albany.edu (Victor @ The Concrete Museum) says: > >Could someone direct me to some good survey articles on the ER model? I would >prefer something other than a book reference because I'm more interested in >a self-contained, but shorter exposition. > >Thanks!! > > - victor The exact reference escapes me at the moment, but there is a chapter in Whitten, Bentley, and Ho's book on Systems Analysis and Design that does a pretty good job on ER(a) modeling. Also, I'd expect most of the Database books to do the same. Go browse QA76. lee
duncan@dduck.ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan) (12/19/89)
In article <2294@leah.Albany.Edu>, victor@cs.albany.edu (Victor @ The Concrete Museum) says: > >Could someone direct me to some good survey articles on the ER model? I would >prefer something other than a book reference because I'm more interested in >a self-contained, but shorter exposition. How about Peter Chen's original paper on the subject? Perhaps this does not qualify as a survey, however. Anyway, it can be found in ACM's Transactions on Database Systems (vol 1, no 1, March '76, pp 9-36) as "The Entity-Relationship Model: Toward a Unified View of Data." Speaking only for myself, of course, I am... Scott P. Duncan (duncan@ctt.bellcore.com OR ...!bellcore!ctt!duncan) (Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane RRC 1H-210, Piscataway, NJ 08854) (201-699-3910 (w) 609-737-2945 (h))