Database systems : a practical approach to design, implementation, and management / Thomas M. Connolly, Carolyn E. Begg and Anne D. Strachan.
By: Connolly, Thomas M
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Contributor(s): Begg, Carolyn E | Strachan, Anne D.
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BookPublisher: Wokingham ; Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley, c1996Description: xxxi, 839 p. : ill ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0201422778 .Subject(s): Database design | Database managementDDC classification: 005.74 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Adopting a pragmatic approach to database systems, with an emphasis on design, this work integrates a central case study throughout. It details a step-by-step methodology and teaches readers how to apply this to design and build applications using leading commercial PC and mainframe database systems. Highlighted boxes and margin tips draw attention to important information. Distributed and Object-Orientd database systems are covered. related areas for 1st course database systems. It should also be useful for IT professionals.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-821) and index.
Part One: Background -- Introduction to Databases -- Database Environment -- The Relational Model -- Database Planning, Design and Administration -- Part Two: Methodology -- Entity-Relationship Modelling -- Normalization -- Methodology - Logical Database Design -- Logical Database Design Methodology - Worked Example -- Methodology - Physical Database Design -- Physical Database Design Methodology - Worked Example -- Part Three: Database Languages -- SQL -- Advanced SQL -- Query-By-Example (QBE) -- Part Four: Selected Database Issues -- Integrity and Security -- Transaction Management -- Distributed Database Systems -- Object Databases.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Thomas Connolly was a designer of RAPPORT, the world's first commercial portable DBMS, and of the LIFESPAN configuration management tool -- a winner of the British Design Award.
Carolyn Begg specializes in the application of database systems in biological research. They are both authors of the best-selling book Database Systems , also published by Addison-Wesley.
Anne Strachan has experience of database design in industry and now she applies it in her teaching and research at the University of Paisley in Scotland. She focuses on problems associated with large diverse sets of data sets in organizations.0201422778AB04062001