Azkaban, un posto come un altro dove vivere

Ecco la TOC della prima parte da affrontare:

Part 1: Foundational Skills and Knowledge

• Chapter 1: Data Can Be Agile.  Explores how application developers, database administrators (DBAs), enterprise architects, and data administrators can work together effectively in an agile environment.

• Chapter 2: From Uses Cases to Databases – Real-World UML. Object technology is the norm for modern projects, therefore it is critical for everyone to understand the basics of object orientation and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.x (including UML data modeling).

• Chapter 3: Data Modeling 101.  Data modeling is a fundamental skill that all software professionals, including object professionals, require if they wish to store data effectively.  UML data modeling is covered in detail.

• Chapter 4: Data Normalization.  Normalization is a collection of design strategies that ensure data is stored in one place and one place only, promoting the design of highly cohesive and loosely coupled data schemas.

• Chapter 5: Class Normalization.  The concepts of normalization can be applied to object schemas, a complementary technique to design patterns and programming idioms.

• Chapter 6: Relational Database Technology, Like it or Not.  Relational databases (RDBs) have been the dominant technology for persisting business objects and will likely remain so, therefore you need to understand technology.

• Chapter 7: Overcoming The Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch.  Object technology and relational technology are based on different paradigms, presenting us with a technical impedance mismatch that we must overcome.  Worse yet is the cultural mismatch between object professionals and data professionals that must also be bridged.

• Chapter 8: Legacy Databases – Everything You Need to Know But Are Afraid to Deal With.  Virtually every project team finds that it needs to work with legacy data sources, and when doing so quickly discover serious data quality, database design, and data architecture problems that they need to overcome.