• Full-color, detailed illustrations, tables, and diagrams enhance comprehension and facilitate understanding of more complex concepts.
• Multiple databases in various formats are used to provide readers with experience in implementation using MS Access, MS SQL Server, and Oracle databases.
• Business vignettes offer insight on the most current issues and challenges facing database implementation today.
• Clear, straightforward writing style provides an outstanding balance of theory and practice.
• Instructor''s Manual includes all end-of-chapter solutions, suggested discussion material, and other resources, giving teachers a complete teaching tool.
• Figures, diagrams, and illustrations have been updated in order to provide students with improved visual aids.
• New review questions, problem sets, and cases have been added throughout the book so that students have multiple opportunities to test their understanding.
• To ensure that students are provided with the most up-to-date material available, content has been expanded to include topics such as Open Source databases, embedded/mobile databases, data replication, data analytics, explanatory models, predictive models, the role of redundant relationships, and examples of web-database connectivity and code security.
• In order to address new trends in the market, coverage now includes green computing/sustainability for modern data centers.
• Material on Ethics, as it pertains to the database administration function, is now included so that students have a solid understanding of ethical dilemmas in the field.

PART I: DATABASE SYSTEMS.

1. The Database Approach.

2. Database Development Process.

PART II: DESIGN ALTERNATIVES.

3. Data Models.

4. Relational Model Characteristics.

PART III: DATABASE PROGRAMMING.

5. Beginning Structured Query Language.

6. Procedural Language SQL and Advanced SQL.

PART IV: DATABASE DESIGN.

7. Data Modeling with Entity Relationship Diagrams.

8. Data Modeling Advanced Concepts.

9. Normalizing Database Designs.

PART V: IMPLEMENTATION ALTERNATIVES.

10. Distributed Databases.

11. Interacting with Databases through the Web.

PART VI: DATABASE MANAGEMENT.

12. Database Administration and Security.

13. Managing Transactions and Concurrency.

14. Managing Database and SQL Performance.

15. Databases for Decision Support.

ONLINE APPENDICES.

Appendix A: Designing Databases with Visio Professional: A Tutorial.

Appendix B: The University Lab: Conceptual Design.

Appendix C: The University Lab: Conceptual Design Verification, Logical Design, and Implementation.

Appendix D: Converting the ER Model into a Database Structure.

Appendix E: Comparison of ER Model Notations.

Appendix F: Client/Server Systems.

Appendix G: Object-Oriented Databases.

Appendix H: Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Appendix I: Databases in Electronic Commerce.

Appendix J: Web Database Development with ColdFusion.

Appendix K: The Hierarchical Database Model.

Appendix L: The Network Database Model.

Appendix M: Microsoft Access Tutorial.

Appendix N: Creating a New Database Using Oracle 11G.

Appendix O: Data Warehouse Implementation Factors.

Carlos Coronel

Carlos Coronel is currently the Lab Director for the College of Business Computer Labs at Middle Tennessee State University. He has over 27 years of experience in various fields as a Database Administrator, Network Administrator, Web Manager, and Technology Specialist, and has taught courses in Web development, database design and development, and data communications at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Stephen Morris

Steven Morris completed his Bachelor of Science and PhD from Auburn University. He has taught Database Design and Development, Database Programming with Advanced SQL and PL/SQL, Systems Analysis and Design, and Principles of MIS at Middle Tennessee State University. Steven has published many articles, and currently serves on the review boards of several journals.

Peter Rob

Peter Rob has 32 years experience teaching file systems, database systems design, database design, database applications development, and more. Peter's real-world experience includes two years as a Director of Operations at an aviation chart company, 20 years as a consultant for hands-on operations systems analysis/development and database systems design, and 15 years experience as a statistical quality control systems analysis and systems/applications developer.