Database systems
Subtitle: design, implementation & management
By: Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel, Keely Crockett
Contributors: Coronel, Carlos; Crockett, Keeley
Edition: International ed.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 808
ISBN-13: 9781844807321
Subjects: Conception; Gestion; Database management; Database design; 0 Gesamtdarstellung; Datenbanksystem; Bases de données
Description: This new international version of Database Systems maintains its engaging writing style and brevity, its unique balance between theory and practice and its wealth of examples throughout the text, inspiring student-friendly learning at its best. This new international version includes new chapters on Relational Algebra and Physical Database Design, and UML modelling notation. It has been updated with all the latest developments and technologies and incorporates a generous number of localised and motivating business vignettes that tie the concepts to real-life situations.
Notes: Includes Internet access.

Previous edition: Boston, Mass.: Thomson/Course Technology, 2007.

Includes CD-ROM.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Database Concepts. 1. Database Systems; title: - 2. Data Models; title: - 3. The Relational Database Model; title: - 4. Relational algebra; title: Part II. Design Concepts. 5. Entity Relationship (ER) Modeling; title: - 6. Advanced Data Modeling; title: - 7. Normalization of Database Tables; title: Part III. SQL. 8. Introduction to Structured Query language (SQL); title: - 9. Advanced SQL; title: Part IV. Database Design and Implementation. 10. Database Design; title: - 11. Conceptual, Logical and Physical database Design; title: Part V. Database Transactions and Performance Tuning. 12. Transaction Management and Concurrency Control; title: - 13. Database Performance Tuning and Query Optimization; title: PART VI. Concepts of large-Scale Database Systems. 14. Distributed Database Management Systems; title: - 15. The Data Warehouse; title: - 16. Database Connectivity and Web Development; title: Appendices.