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Comparing relational database designing approaches: some managerial implications for database training

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Title:

Comparing relational database designing approaches: some managerial implications for database training

Author(s):

Heng-Li Yang

Journal:

Industrial Management & Data Systems

Year:

2003

Volume:

103

Issue:

3

Page:

150 - 166


ISSN:

0263-5577


DOI:

10.1108/02635570310465634

Publisher:

MCB UP Ltd

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Abstract:

This research conducted two experiments to understand the performance (correctness and efficiency) of novice database designers, and perceptions of ease of use and preferences of two approaches for modeling relational databases: the semantic-oriented approach (top-down, e.g. using the entity-relationship model) and the logical-oriented approach (bottom-up, view decomposition, focusing only on the logical model). The findings indicated that in experiment 1, semantic-oriented treatments performed better in a complex, written-text case; logical-oriented treatments were better in a simple, tabular-form case. The same situation happened in experiment 2 though the differences were not statistically significant.

Keywords:

Database packages, Databases, Decomposition method, Relational databases, User studies


Article Type:

Research paper


Article URL:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02635570310465634

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