Fundamentals of Database Management Systems

by Mark L Gillenson

Overview

GET ALL YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW!

What does database management have to do with ducks? A lot more than you might think. Ducks Unlimited, the world’s largest wetlands conservation organization, relies on a major relational database application to manage both the operational and financial aspects of its wetlands conservation projects.

This is just one of the many exciting, real-world examples of database management you’ll find in Mark Gillenson’s FUNDAMENTAL OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. Offering a highly focused and applied approach, this new text will help you master the fundamentals of database management, so you can immediately apply what you’ve learned to real business situations.

Features

• This compact, practical introduction emphasizes fundamental database concepts and presents them in a clear, easy-to-understand way.
• Coverage starts with basic concepts of data, and then proceeds in a step-by-step manner to present all of the major aspects of database management.
• A complete chapter covers data retrieval with SQL, which is applicable to Oracle, Microsoft Access, and all other relational database management systems.
• Every chapter starts with a short story, complete with a photo, of how real company use database for a real application. Throughout, the text makes heavy use of examples, including four major examples that are repeatedly used to drive home key concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471262978
Publisher:	Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/25/2004
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	8.29(w) x 10.16(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Mark L. Gillenson is Professor of Management Information Systems and Director of MBA Programs in the Fogelman College of Business & Economics of the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Dr. Gillenson worked for the IBM Corp. for 15 years in a variety of positions, including seven years as a faculty member of the prestigious IBM Systems Research Institute. Subsequently, he was a professor at the University of Miami, Miami FL. Dr. Gillenson's areas of interest are database management systems, particularly database administration and database design, electronic commerce, and software testing. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Database Management and of the journal Pattern Recognition. Dr. Gillenson's research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Methods of Information in Medicine, and other leading journals. His books include Strategic Planning, Systems Analysis, and Database Design, 1984, Database: Step-by-Step, Second Edition, 1990, and Fundamentals of Database Management Systems, 2005, all published by John Wiley & Sons.

Table of Contents

1. Data: The New Corporate Resource.

2. Simple File Storage and Retrieval.

3. Data Modeling.

4. The Database Management System Concept.

5. The Relational Database Model: Introduction.

6. The Relational Database Model: Additional Concepts.

7. Logical Database Design.

8. Physical Database Design.

9. Relational Data Retrieval: SQL.

10. Object-Oriented Database Management.

11. Data Administration, Database Administration, and Data Dictionaries.

12. Database Control Issues.

13. Client/Server Database and Distributed Database.

14. The Data Warehouse.

15. Database and the Internet.