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Revised edition of a textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to database management systems. Part 1 contains six chapters on database design concepts. Part 2 presents a detailed, real-world design case, in which the concepts of Part 1 are put to work. Part 3 covers database administration, transaction management, distributed databases, object orientation and the extended relational database, and client/server computing. Finally, Part 4 looks back at older database models. Includes a detailed glossary. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


Book Description
This Sixth Edition takes you clearly and effectively through the entire process of database development and implementation. This market leading text includes new Visio and UML tutorials, as well as a new chapter on Advanced SQL. All appendices are housed on a CD that accompany every copy of the text.


Book Info
Takes students step by step through the entire process of database development and creation. Provides the most comprehensive, detailed, and clear coverage of database basics, with ample exercises and problems at the end of each chapter.


About the Author
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.

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