Title: Database Systems : A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0201342871
ISBN 13: 9780201342871
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd Edition.
Condition: Good
Weight: 4.07 pounds

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An Accessible, Up-to-Date Introduction to Database Systems 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 Access(tm). Offers new coverage of query processing and optimization, data mining, data warehouses, multimedia databases, and the Internet.

About the Author

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.

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