Fundamentals of Database Management Systems / Edition 1
by Mark L. GillensonISBN-10: 0471262978
ISBN-13: 9780471262978
Pub. Date: 03/28/2004
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Overview
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What does database management have to do with ducks? A lot more than you might think. Ducks Unlimited, the world’s largest wetlands conservation organization, relies on a major relational database application to manage both the operational and financial aspects of its wetlands conservation projects.
This is just one of the many exciting, real-world examples of database management you’ll find in Mark Gillenson’s FUNDAMENTAL OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. Offering a highly focused and applied approach, this new text will help you master the fundamentals of database management, so you can immediately apply what you’ve learned to real business situations.
Features
- This compact, practical introduction emphasizes fundamental database concepts and presents them in a clear, easy-to-understand way.
- Coverage starts with basic concepts of data, and then proceeds in a step-by-step manner to present all of the major aspects of database management.
- A complete chapter covers data retrieval with SQL, which is applicable to Oracle, Microsoft Access, and all other relational database management systems.
- Every chapter starts with a short story, complete with a photo, of how real company use database for a real application. Throughout, the text makes heavy use of examples, including four major examples that are repeatedly used to drive home key concepts.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780471262978
- Publisher:
- Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
- Publication date:
- 03/28/2004
- Edition description:
- Older Edition
- Pages:
- 366
- Product dimensions:
- 8.29(w) x 10.16(h) x 1.05(d)
Table of Contents
1. Data: The New Corporate Resource.2. Simple File Storage and Retrieval.
3. Data Modeling.
4. The Database Management System Concept.
5. The Relational Database Model: Introduction.
6. The Relational Database Model: Additional Concepts.
7. Logical Database Design.
8. Physical Database Design.
9. Relational Data Retrieval: SQL.
10. Object-Oriented Database Management.
11. Data Administration, Database Administration, and Data Dictionaries.
12. Database Control Issues.
13. Client/Server Database and Distributed Database.
14. The Data Warehouse.
15. Database and the Internet.
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