Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management 2nd Ed. / Edition 2
by Thomas Connolly, Anne Strachan, Carolyn Begg, Carolyn E. Begg
Database Systems, Second Edition provides a strong foundation in good design practice. Using an accessible, step-by-step approach, students will master a database methodology. Then, the authors apply this methodology to worked examples so students learn to design and build applications using a leading commercial database system. Also, a central, realistic case
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Database Systems, Second Edition provides a strong foundation in good design practice. Using an accessible, step-by-step approach, students will master a database methodology. Then, the authors apply this methodology to worked examples so students learn to design and build applications using a leading commercial database system. Also, a central, realistic case study is integrated throughout the text to provide an understanding of the issues involved. This new edition will build on the clear, accessible presentation of the successful first edition.
New to the Second Edition
- Includes additional and simplified examples.
- Features new material on distributed databases including interactions with web-based data.
- Contains new material on object-oriented databases that covers the latest ODBM standards.
- Illustrates concepts with screen shots from Accesso.
- Offers new coverage of query processing and optimization, data mining, data warehouses, multimedia databases, and the Internet.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780201342871
- Publisher:
- Addison-Wesley
- Publication date:
- 08/12/1998
- Series:
- International Computer Science Series
- Edition description:
- Older Edition
- Pages:
- 1093
- Product dimensions:
- 7.37(w) x 9.06(h) x 1.94(d)
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Introduction to Databases | 3 |
| 2 | Database Environment | 38 |
| 3 | The Relational Model | 71 |
| 4 | Database Planning, Design, and Administration | 111 |
| 5 | Entity-Relationship Modeling | 149 |
| 6 | Normalization | 191 |
| 7 | Methodology - Conceptual Database Design | 225 |
| 8 | Methodology - Logical Database Design for Relational Model | 242 |
| 9 | Methodology - Physical Database Design for Relational Databases | 268 |
| 10 | Conceptual Database Design Methodology - Worked Example | 305 |
| 11 | Logical Database Design Methodology - Worked Example | 327 |
| 12 | Physical Database Design Methodology - Worked Example | 352 |
| 13 | SQL | 383 |
| 14 | Advanced SQL | 440 |
| 15 | Query-By-Example (QBE) | 504 |
| 16 | Security | 531 |
| 17 | Transaction Management | 557 |
| 18 | Query Processing | 603 |
| 19 | Distributed DBMSs - Concepts and Design | 645 |
| 20 | Distributed DBMSs - Advanced Concepts | 687 |
| 21 | Introduction to Object DBMSs | 728 |
| 22 | Object-Oriented DBMSs | 754 |
| 23 | Object-Relational DBMSs | 809 |
| 24 | Web Technology and DBMSs | 855 |
| 25 | Data Warehousing | 912 |
| 26 | OLAP and Data Mining | 948 |
| App. A | The Wellmeadows Hospital Case Study | 973 |
| App. B | File Organization and Storage Structures | 982 |
| App. C | Network Data Model | 998 |
| App. D | Hierarchical Data Model | 1015 |
| App. E | Comparison of Network, Hierarchical, and Relational Database Systems | 1028 |
| App. F | Summary of the Database Design Methodology for Relational Databases | 1033 |
| App. G | Example Web Scripts | 1039 |
| References | 1054 | |
| Further Reading | 1062 | |
| Index | 1069 |
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