Description
Book SynopsisScott W. Ambler is a software process improvement (SPI) consultant living just north of Toronto. He is founder and practice leader of the Agile Modeling (AM) (www.agilemodeling.com), Agile Data (AD) (www.agiledata.org), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) (www.enterpriseunifiedprocess.com), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) (www.ambysoft.com/unifiedprocess) methodologies. Scott is the (co-)author of several books, including Agile Modeling (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), Agile Database Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, 2003), The Object Primer, Third Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2004), The Enterprise Unified Process (Prentice Hall, 2005), and The Elements of UML 2.0 Style (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Scott is a contributing editor with Software Development magazine (www.sdmagazine.com) and has spoken and keynoted at a wide variety of international conferences, including Software Development, UML World,
Table of Contents
About the Authors xv
Forewords xvii
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxvii
Chapter 1: Evolutionary Database Development 1
Chapter 2: Database Refactoring 13
Chapter 3: The Process of Database Refactoring 29
Chapter 4: Deploying into Production 49
Chapter 5: Database Refactoring Strategies 59
Chapter 6: Structural Refactorings 69
Chapter 7: Data Quality Refactorings 151
Chapter 8: Referential Integrity Refactorings 203
Chapter 9: Architectural Refactorings 231
Chapter 10: Method Refactorings 277
Chapter 11: Transformations 295
Appendix: The UML Data Modeling Notation 315
Glossary 321
References and Recommended Reading 327
Index 331
