This book takes the reader through the various stages of the Methodology, introducing the models and languages used, explaining the structured development process from analysis through to implementation and finally explaining how to put the Methodology to work.

• in-depth presentation of all the latest innovations in database design
• practical guidelines on how to put the IDEA Methodology to work on widely known commercial platforms
• an extensive running case study and numerous examples
• IDEA Web Lab offering a Java-enabled development environment to support users.

Aimed at database systems analysts, designers, administrators, managers and consultants as well as students of advanced database courses, it assumes the reader is familiar with relational and object-oriented database concepts.