Database systems : concepts, management, and applications

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Title:

Database systems : concepts, management, and applications

Author:

Lorents, Alden C.

ISBN:

9780155000292

Personal Author:

Lorents, Alden C.

Publication Information:

Fort Worth : Dryden Press, c1998.

Physical Description:

xxii, 650 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Dryden Press series in information systems

Contents:

Overview of database management systems -- Data and its representation in database systems -- Tools and methods for conceptual design -- Process of database planning and development -- Airline database: Conceptual design case -- Introduction to relational tables and SQL retrieval -- Implementing a relational database -- Client-server application development -- Embedded SQL programming for client-server applications -- Control and administration of database systems -- Physical data organization for database systems -- Distributed database systems -- Object-oriented database systems -- Hierarchical model: IMS -- Network data model -- Glossary.

Subject Term:

Database management.

Database design.

Added Author:

Morgan, James N. (James Nelson), 1948-

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Summary

This work is intended for introductory database courses that cover the design and implementation of relational databases using database activities to reinforce theories. Among the cases and examples, there is an ongoing case concerning Air-West Airlines, to better depict the advantages of the relational model. The text balances two approaches for teaching database management. Mainframe and microcomputer database systems are represented equally.