Physical Description
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xxvi, 1030 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.
Notes
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Includes Bibliographical References and Index.
Book Information
This book combines clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and excellent examples with up-to-date introductions to modern database technologies. Now in its third edition, this book has been revised and updated to reflect the latest trends in technological and application development. - Introduces UML modeling and how it is used right alongside ER modeling. - Provides updated and expanded material on SQL including a new chapter, which discusses Web databases and SQL, including JDBC/ODBC. - Applies ideas from the book to a fully-developed case study that implements the data needed to design a bookstore. - Expanded coverage of important database topics like security, data warehousing, and data mining. - A new chapter featuring the relationship to XML and Internet databases keeps students on the edge of database technology. - Gives examples of real database systems. - Provides coverage of the object-oriented and object/relational approach to data management. - Includes discussion of decision support applications of data warehousing and data mining, as well as emerging technologies of web databases, multimedia, and mobile databases. - Covers a