Seeking Database Design Guide

["David" <dg.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings!

I've long been a critic of companies (I worked for one!) that put
the PC-based "database du jour" in the hands of employees with a
semester of DBase, expecting them to whip up a new database with
important business data.  I keep arguing that without an
understanding of database design concepts, the most adept PC user
will still end up creating a database that looks like it was whipped
up -- in a blender!

Now it's time for the critic to take some of his own medicine.  My
heritage as an RPG programmer is long on the "flat file" hardware --
the 5280, the S/34 and S/36 -- but short on the relational aspects
of the AS/400 (just since '94).  I want to bring my design skills up
to standard to take advantage of the features DB2/400 offers.

Your advice, please!  I've had lots of experience learning what
_doesn't_ work.  I'd like to know what books or other sources this
group would recommend -- not necessarily related to the 400, of
course.  It's the relational design concepts and "lingo" I'm after.

Thanks!
David Thomas
| Phone:  416-922-3899
| Fax:    416-922-2213
| E-Mail: dg.thomas@sympatico.ca
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