Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer

Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer

<ul> <li>Describes Agile Modeling Driven Design (AMDD) and Test-Driven Design (TDD) approaches, database refactoring, database encapsulation strategies, and tools that support evolutionary techniques</li> <li>Agile software developers often use object and relational database (RDB) technology together and as a result must overcome the impedance mismatch</li> <li>The author covers techniques for mapping objects to RDBs and for implementing concurrency control, referential integrity, shared business logic, security access control, reports, and XML</li> <li>An agile foundation describes fundamental skills that all agile software developers require, particularly Agile DBAs</li> <li>Includes object modeling, UML data modeling, data normalization, class normalization, and how to deal with legacy databases</li> <li>Scott W. Ambler is author of <i>Agile Modeling</i> (0471202827), a contributing editor with Software Development (www.sdmagazine.com), and a featured speaker at software conferences worldwide</li> </ul>