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Yasashii Database Sekkei (A Gentle Guide to Database Design)
Key Points from Requirements Definition through Operations
Yutaka Eto
Summary
A Japanese-language introductory guide to database design by Yutaka Eto, aimed at readers with little experience or confidence in DB design. Starting from modeling grounded in an understanding of the business, it walks through the full process: organizing requirements, logical design, physical design, implementation, and operations, down to operational design and the choice of operational tools. For the table and column design decisions that practitioners commonly struggle with, it offers concrete judgment criteria.
Target Readers
- Engineers with limited DB design experience who need the full flow from requirements definition through operations walked through once, start to finish
- Newly assigned staff who have just been handed responsibility for data management and do not know where to start
- Staff with DB design experience whose judgment calls lack confidence, checking their sense of the key points against the book's concrete criteria
Tags
Colophon
- Publisher
- Impress
- ISBN
- 978-4-295-02356-2
- Published
- Jan 2026
- List price
- ¥2,750incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon
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Prerequisites
- Recommended
SQL, 2nd Edition
Working with Databases, Starting from Zero
Mick
Reason: After learning basic SQL operations such as SELECT and JOIN, the natural next step is the upstream question of how to design the tables themselves. This book walks through requirements definition, logical design, physical design, and operations in one pass, giving concrete guidance at each stage where a reader new to DB design tends to stumble.
Next Books
- Recommended
Tatsujin ni Manabu DB Sekkei Tettei Shinansho, 2nd Edition (A Thorough Guide to DB Design, Learned from an Expert)
Mick
Reason: After going through the design process from requirements to operations once, you will want to dig into the judgment criteria for choosing between normalization and denormalization. 'DB Design Mastery Guide' covers the conversion process from logical to physical design along with its trade-offs, letting you relearn each stage touched on in the beginner book with concrete decision criteria.