Databases illuminated /

Ricardo, Catherine M.

Databases illuminated / Catherine Ricardo, Lona College. - Sudbury : Jones & Bartlett Publishers, c.2004. - xix, 874 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Jones and Bartlett illuminated series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductory database concepts -- Database planning and database architecture -- The entity-relationship model -- The relational model -- Relational database management systems and SQL -- Normalization -- The object-oriented model -- The enhanced-entity relationship model and the object-relational model -- Introduction to database security -- Transaction management -- Relational query optimization -- Distributed databases -- Databases and the internet -- Social and ethical issues -- Data warehouses and data mining.

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Database management.



005.74 / RIC