Grokking Relational Database Design (Manning)
Monday, 07 July 2025

This book teaches the art of database design through real-world projects, insightful illustrations, and action-oriented learning. Unlike many beginning database books that focus on the technical details of SQL and formal database theory, in this book Qiang Hao and Michail Tsikerdekis teach how to think about relational database design from the ground up. The authors also explore how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT radically simplify the mundane tasks of database design.

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Author: Qiang Hao and Michail Tsikerdekis
Publisher: Manning
Date: April 2025
Pages: 280
ISBN: 978-1633437418
Print: 1633437418
Kindle: B0DZY5R238
Audience: Database developers
Level: Introductory
Category: Database

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Topics include

  • Query and create databases using Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • Design databases from scratch
  • Implement and optimize database designs
  • Take advantage of generative AI when designing databases

Everything in the book is reinforced by hands-on exercises and examples. Readers design, implement, and optimize a database for an e-commerce application.

 

For recommendations of relational database books see Pick Of The Shelf - SQL Server  and Read Your Way Into MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL in our Programmer's Bookshelf section.

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