Database Management Systems

Database Management Systems by Patricia Ward

The success of many organizations depends upon information stored in database management systems. Given the importance of such systems, it is essential that managers with responsibility for IT understand the underlying database management system (DBMS) principles, are aware of the strengths and weaknesses of existing database technology and of likely future developments in the field. This book explores these areas. Students using this book will already have some knowledge of databases and will have completed an introductory course in database systems. This book supports a course aimed at deepening the students' understanding of the technologies covered earlier by introducing other conceptual models which have been proposed to tackle deficiencies of the relational model. It also addresses advanced issues faced in database application development and it aims to familiarise students with the current technological developments and trends. The book covers the following areas: Transaction management Concurrency control Recovery Query Optimisation Distributed Management Systems Object-oriented data models Object-relational database management systems Data warehousing

1Introduction. 2. The relational model. 3. Database design using entity relationship modelling. 4. Database design using normalisation. 5. Introduction to SQL. 6. Further SQL. 7. PL/SQL. 8. Query processing and optimisation. 9. Object-oriented and object-relational models. 10. Transaction management and concurrency control. 11. Backup and recovery. 12. Distributed database systems. 13. Web database connectivity. 14. Data warehousing. 15. Physical Database Design. Appendix - The Bus Depots' Database. Further reading. Index.

Patricia Ward was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, moving to the United States when she was eighteen. She is the author of the The Bullet Collection, an award-winning novel about two sisters growing up in wartime Beirut. Ward is also a book artist specializing in miniature books and dioramas. She lives with her family near Boston, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9781408007686
ISBN 10	1408007681
Title	Database Management Systems
Author	Patricia Ward
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cengage Learning EMEA
Year published	2008-09-01
Number of pages	392
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