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Database design and development : an essential guide for IT professionals / Paulraj Ponniah.

By: Ponniah, Paulraj [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | John Wiley & Sons [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Interscience, c2003Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2005]Description: 1 PDF (xxvii, 734 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780471728993.Subject(s): Database management | Database design | Analytical models | Architecture | Authorization | Automobiles | Banking | Bibliographies | Browsers | Buildings | Business | Catalogs | Communication cables | Companies | Computer aided software engineering | Computer architecture | Computers | Concurrency control | Context | Credit cards | Data models | Data structures | Data systems | Data warehouses | Database systems | Databases | Design methodology | Dictionaries | Distributed databases | Graphics | Hardware | Image restoration | Indexes | Information technology | Internet | Layout | Maintenance engineering | Materials | Mathematical model | Medical services | Memory | Memory management | Monitoring | Object oriented modeling | Object recognition | Operating systems | Organizations | Programming | Protocols | Relational databases | Reliability | Security | Semantics | Servers | Set theory | Software | Standards organizations | Symbols | Syntactics | Systematics | Terminology | Training | Transforms | Tuning | Visual databases | Warehousing | Web pagesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleOnline resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
The database approach -- Overview of major components -- Significance of the database environment -- Database development life cycle -- Data modeling basics -- Object-based data model : principles and components -- Entity-relationship data model -- Relational data model fundamentals -- Sematic data model to relational data model -- Normalization method -- Completing the logical design -- The physical design process -- Special implementation considerations -- Overview of administration functions -- Data integrity -- Database security -- Ongoing maintenance and growth -- Distributed database systems -- Database systems and the Web -- Trends in database technology.
Summary: The first and only database primer for today's global economy Today's businesses depend on their databases to provide information essential for their day-to-day operations and to help them take advantage of today's rapidly growing and maturing electronic commerce opportunities. The primary responsibility for the design and maintenance of these databases rests with a company's information technology department. Unlike other IT resources currently available that tend to focus on a particular product, Database Design and Development: An Essential Guide for IT Professionals was created to give today's IT directors and other IT staff a solid basic knowledge of database design and development to help them make educated decisions about the right database environment for their companies. Today's IT professionals must understand the fundamentals in order to determine their next steps for specializing in the vast field of database technology. Database Design and Development: An Essential Guide for IT Professionals answers such common questions as: . What is the purpose of a database system?. What are the components of a database system?. What type of data does your company need to capture?. How do you design a database for a particular goal?. How do you capture information through data modeling?. How do you determine which database will best meet your business objectives?. What's involved in effective database management and maintenance?. How are database systems used to interface with the Internet? With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching IT courses and designing databases for some of America's top institutions, the author has succeeded in creating an essential resource for today's IT managers as well as for students planning a career in information technology.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 716-717) and index.

The database approach -- Overview of major components -- Significance of the database environment -- Database development life cycle -- Data modeling basics -- Object-based data model : principles and components -- Entity-relationship data model -- Relational data model fundamentals -- Sematic data model to relational data model -- Normalization method -- Completing the logical design -- The physical design process -- Special implementation considerations -- Overview of administration functions -- Data integrity -- Database security -- Ongoing maintenance and growth -- Distributed database systems -- Database systems and the Web -- Trends in database technology.

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The first and only database primer for today's global economy Today's businesses depend on their databases to provide information essential for their day-to-day operations and to help them take advantage of today's rapidly growing and maturing electronic commerce opportunities. The primary responsibility for the design and maintenance of these databases rests with a company's information technology department. Unlike other IT resources currently available that tend to focus on a particular product, Database Design and Development: An Essential Guide for IT Professionals was created to give today's IT directors and other IT staff a solid basic knowledge of database design and development to help them make educated decisions about the right database environment for their companies. Today's IT professionals must understand the fundamentals in order to determine their next steps for specializing in the vast field of database technology. Database Design and Development: An Essential Guide for IT Professionals answers such common questions as: . What is the purpose of a database system?. What are the components of a database system?. What type of data does your company need to capture?. How do you design a database for a particular goal?. How do you capture information through data modeling?. How do you determine which database will best meet your business objectives?. What's involved in effective database management and maintenance?. How are database systems used to interface with the Internet? With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching IT courses and designing databases for some of America's top institutions, the author has succeeded in creating an essential resource for today's IT managers as well as for students planning a career in information technology.

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