
- 416 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Fundamentals of Database Management Systems
About this book
This lean, focused text concentrates on giving students a clear understanding of database fundamentals while providing a broad survey of all the major topics of the field. The result is a text that is easily covered in one semester, and that only includes topics relevant to the database course. Mark Gillenson, an associate editor of the Journal of Database Management, has 15 years experience of working with and teaching at IBM Corp. and 15 years of teaching experience at the college level. He writes in a clear, friendly style that progresses step-by-step through all of the major database topics. Each chapter begins with a story about a real company's database application, and is packed with examples. When students finish the text, they will be able to immediately apply what they've learned in business.
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- About The Author
- Chapter 1: Data: The New Corporate Resource
- Chapter 2: Data Modeling
- Chapter 3: The Database Management System Concept
- Chapter 4: Relational Data Retrieval: SQL
- Chapter 5: The Relational Database Model: Introduction
- Chapter 6: The Relational Database Model: Additional Concepts
- Chapter 7: Logical Database Design
- Chapter 8: Physical Database Design
- Chapter 9: Object-Oriented Database Management
- Chapter 10: Data Administration, Database Administration, and Data Dictionaries
- Chapter 11: Database Control Issues: Security, Backup and Recovery, Concurrency
- Chapter 12: Client/Server Database and Distributed Database
- Chapter 13: The Data Warehouse
- Chapter 14: Databases and the Internet
- Index