
Data Analysis for Database Design
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Key Features
- Increased material on SQL including the latest developments
- Practical approach to explaining techniques and concepts
- Contains many questions and answer pointers
Readership
Table of Contents
Part 1: Databases and database management systems: Database systems
Database management system architecturePart 2: Relational modelling: Tables
Redundant vs duplicated data
Repeating groups
Determinants and identifiers
Fully-normalised tablesPart 3: Entity-relationaship modelling
Introduction to entity-relationship modelling
Properties of relationships
Decomposition of many:many relationships
Connection traps
Skeleton entity-relationship models
Attribute assignment
First-level design
Second level designPart 4: Further topics
Distributed database systems
Relational algebra
Query optimnisation
The SQL language
Object orientation
Appendix: The Codasyl (network) model
Product details
- No. of pages: 336
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2001
- Published: May 31, 2001
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780080503608
About the Author
David Howe
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