Information Modeling and relational databases provides an introduction to ORM (Object-Role Modeling) and much more. In fact, it's the only book to go beyond introductory coverage and provide all of the in-depth instruction you need to transform nowledge from domain experts into a sound database design. This book is intended for anyone with a stake in the accuracy and efficiency of databases: systems analysts, information modelers, dtabase designers and administrators, instructors, managers and programmers.

Terry Halpin, a pinoeer in the development of oRM, blends conceptual information with practical instruction that will let you begin using ORM effectively as soon as possible. Supported by examples, exercises, and useful background information, his step-by-step approach teaches you to develop a natural-language-based ORM model and then, where-needed, abstract ER and UML models from it. This book will quaickly make you proficient in the modeling techniques that is proving vital to the development of accurate and efficient databases that best meet real business objectives.