Business database systems / Thomas Connolly, Carolyn Begg, Richard Holowczak.
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TextPublication details: Harlow, England ; New York : Addison-Wesley, 2008.Description: xxv, 566 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN: - 1405874376 (pbk.)
- 9781405874373 (pbk.)
- 005.74 CON
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Business Database Systems arms you with the knowledge to analyse, design and implement effective, robust and successful databases. This book is ideal for students of Business/Management Information Systems, or Computer Science, who will be expected to take a course in database systems for their degree programme. It is also excellently suited to any practitioner who needs to learn, or refresh their knowledge of, the essentials of database management systems.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [556]-557) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part I Background
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Relational Model
- 3 SQL and QBE
- 4 The database system development lifecycle
- Part II Database Analysis and Design Techniques
- 5 Fact Finding
- 6 Entity-Relationship Modeling
- 7 Enhanced ER Modeling
- 8 Normalization
- Part III Database Design Methodology
- 9 Conceptual Database Design, Step 1
- 10 Logical Database Design, Step 2
- 11 Physical Database Design
- Part IV Current and Emerging Trends
- 12 Database administration and security
- 13 Professional, legal, and ethical issues in data management
- 14 Transaction Management
- 15 eCommerce and Database Systems
- 16 Distributed and Mobile DBMSs
- 17 Object DBMSs
- 18 Business Intelligence
- Appendices A The buyer user view forStayHome Online Rentals
- B Second case study Perfect Pets
- C Alternative data modeling notations
- D summary of the database design methodology
- E Advanced SQL
- F Guidelines for choosing indexes
- G Guidelines for denormalization
- H Object-oriented concepts
- I Common data models
Author notes provided by Syndetics
The authors
Prof. Thomas Connolly is Chair of the ITCE in Education Research Group at the University of the West of Scotland, and Director of the Scottish Centre for Enabling Technologies. He is a winner of the British Design Award for his work on database systems.
Dr. Carolyn Begg is a lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of the West of Scotland where she teaches Business Database Systems, Advanced Business Systems, and Business Intelligence. Prof. Connolly and Dr. Begg are authors of the best-selling Database Systems which has sold over ¼ million copies worldwide.
Dr. Richard Holowczak is Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at Zicklin School of Business, City University of New York where he has taught courses on databases, business intelligence, security and financial information technologies since 1997. Dr. Holowczak is also director of the Wasserman Trading Floor / Subotnick Financial Services Centre.