Business Database Systems arms you with the knowledge to analyse, design and implement effective, robust and successful databases. This book is ideal for students of Business/Management Information Systems, or Computer Science, who will be expected to take a course in database systems for their degree programme. It is also excellently suited to any practitioner who needs to learn, or refresh their knowledge of, the essentials of database management systems.
Part I - Background
1. Introduction
2.The Relational Model
3. SQL and QBE
4. The database system development lifecycle
Part II - Database Analysis and Design Techniques
5. Fact Finding
6. Entity-Relationship Modeling
7. Enhanced ER Modeling
8. Normalization
Part III - Database Design Methodology
9. Conceptual Database Design, Step 1
10. Logical Database Design, Step 2
11. Physical Database Design
Part IV - Current and Emerging Trends
12. Database administration and security
13. Professional, legal, and ethical issues in data management
14. Transaction Management
15. eCommerce and Database Systems
16. Distributed and Mobile DBMSs
17. Object DBMSs
18. Business Intelligence
Appendices
A The buyer user view for StayHome Online Rentals
B Second case study - Perfect Pets
C Alternative data modeling notations
D summary of the database design methodology
E Advanced SQL
F Guidelines for choosing indexes
G Guidelines for denormalization
H Object-oriented concepts
I Common data models
