Database Management Systems: Designing and Building Business Applications

Post, Gerald V.

ISBN 10: 0072504269 / ISBN 13: 9780072504262

Published by McGraw-Hill College, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A., 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Database Management Systems: Designing and Building Business Applications
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072504269
• ISBN 13: 9780072504262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Post takes a less a theory-oriented, conceptual approach and more of a hands-on, practical approach to DBMS, focusing on teaching students how to design, build, manage database applications and giving them practice doing so. As with the first edition, Post continues to include many examples, exercises, and 2 sample databases to give students plenty of hands-on practice.

From the Publisher

All New Material on building a web front-end in Chapter 12.
Expanded coverage of Oracle and SQL Server, especially as related to building Forms and Reports in Chapter 6.
Expanded coverage in Data Queries and Advanced Queries of OLAP, data warehouses, and data mining (Chapters 4 and 5)
Two fully functional business databases, Sally's Pet Store and Rolling Thunder Bicycles, have been updated to Access 2000 and are tied to examples and exercises in the text. These are available on a free student CD or on the OLC.
Simplifies the teaching and understanding of database design (chapter 2) by describing and using UML (Unified Modeling Language) notation for data modeling and systems diagrams, instead of using traditional ERDs (entity-relationship diagrams) which have many different notations and techniques. UML is a newer notation standard that major software developers, like Microsoft and Oracle, have adopted.
Appendix of several cases that can be used as end-of-term projects for building database applications.
Visual Basic used to build web front end for application development illustrations.
FREE Student CD-ROM contains the Rolling Thunder and Pet Store sample databases.