Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management

Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, Fifth Edition takes you clearly and effectively through the entire process of database development and implementation. The most comprehensive and detailed coverage of database basics is complemented with ample exercises and problems at the end of each chapter to encourage hands-on learning, and a two-chapter step-by-step running case. Because the Internet has become so firmly established as an extension of the everyday business data environment, this revised edition contains two new chapters, "Databases in Electronic Commerce" and "Web Database Development," that stress the need for solid planning and management in order to maximize the resources that the Internet provides.

Peter Rob, best selling author has 32 years experience in teaching file systems, database systems design, database design, database applications development, statistical analysis and statistical applications development, statistical quality control (process) analysis and systems development. He has been busy authoring 28 books and manuals (as of 2004) for multiple companies -- Course Technology and its predecessors (Wadsworth, Boyd & Fraser), Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill. Sample titles and publishers: Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management (Wadsworth, Boyd & Fraser, Course Technology -- written with Carlos M. Coronel), Programming the IBM PC and Compatibles (Wadsworth), Microcomputer Programming (Wadsworth), IBM PC BASIC (Wadsworth), Database Design and Applications Development (McGraw-Hill -- Treyton Williams, co-author), Databases: Design, Development, and Deployment, Using Microsoft Access (McGraw-Hill -- Elie Semaan, co-author), Apple-STAT: Regression/Correlation Analysis on the Apple II/IIe (Prentice-Hall), Database Programming with dBase II and III (Wadsworth), MicroSTAT (Wadsworth), and various university press publications and operations manuals written for corporations. Peter's real world experience includes two years of experience as a Director of Operations of an aviation charter company, 20 years of experience as a consultant for hands-on operations systems analysis/development and database systems design, and fifteen years experience as a statistical quality control systems analyst and systems/applications developer.