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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2004, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in March 2004...

This technically reviewed and ADS-endorsed resource delivers to-the-point information on using ADS to build outstanding databases with unparalleled stability, scalability, and performance...

An agile database administrator (DBA) has the difficult task of focusing on data-oriented issues, including traditional database administration as well as any application development involving data...

Relational databases hold data, right? They indeed do, but to think of a database as nothing more than a container for data is to miss out on the profound power that underlies relational technology...

Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are a ubiquitous and critical component of modern computing, and the result of decades of research and development in both academia and industry...

Beginning Database Design

• The perfect reference for programmers, administrators, or Web designers who are new to database development and are uncertain as to how to design and structure a database efficiently
• Shows how to design and implement robust, scalable databases on any of the major relational database management systems, including Access, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, and Oracle
• Covers all the key database design steps including modeling, normalization, SQL, denormalization, object-modeling, data warehousing, and performance
• Provides plenty of real-world examples and a complete beginning-to-end case study of creating a database that includes the analysis and planning, tables and data structures, business rules, and hardware requirements

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time...

SQL Server 2005 Express is the database component of Microsoft's Express Suite of products...

Small, special-purpose computing devices and high-end core Internet servers need fast, reliable database management...

Database management, design and information systems development are becoming an integral part of many business applications...

Businesses now rely almost entirely on applications and databases, causing data and storage needs to increase at astounding rates...

"This book is chock-full of useful techniques and tips for improving data models and designs...

Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition provides expert tutelage for data modelers, business analysts and systems designers at all levels...

The purpose of this book is to provide a practical approach for IT professionals to acquire the necessary knowledge and expertise in data modeling to function effectively...

Data Quality provides an exposé of research and practice in the data quality field for technically oriented readers...

Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and businesses...

Data Quality: The Accuracy Dimension is about assessing the quality of corporate data and improving its accuracy using the data profiling method...

Data warehousing is revolutionizing the way businesses in a wide variety of industries perform analysis and make strategic decisions...

A database management system (DBMS) is used to create databases...

Programmers and software architects don't really make a conscious decision to design an application (particularly one with online exposure) around the three-tier model-view-controller design pattern anymore...

If you want to see how your next database project can profit from object-oriented design, check out Database Design for Smarties, a lively and intelligent guide to using objects in databases...

Databases are now an integral part of the internet and many web sites use databases in the background to control their content...

Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Diagrams clarifies ER diagram design by defining it in terms of requirements (end user requests) and specifications (designer feedback to that request)...

This book sheds light on the principles behind the relational model, which is fundamental to all database-backed applications--and, consequently, most of the work that goes on in the computing world today...

One of the driving forces that stimulated the emergence of database technology was the need to guarantee the quality of the data stored...

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the fundamentals of database systems...

Database systems and database design technology have undergone significant evolution in recent years...

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages, DBPL 2007, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2007 in conjunction with VLDB 2007...

This Sixth Edition takes you clearly and effectively through the entire process of database development and implementation...

This publication contains papers that present original results in business modeling and enterprise engineering, database research, data engineering, data quality and data analysis, IS engineering, Web engineering, and application of AI methods...

Through clear language, step-by-step discussions, and quizzes at the end of each chapter, the author makes databases easy...

Date on Database: Writings 2000--2006 captures some of the freshest thinking from widely known and respected relational database pioneer C...

DB2 Developer's Guide, Fourth Edition is completely revised and updated, covering all the new features for Version 6 for OS/390...

IBM DB2 UDB Express Edition Version 8...

Transform disparate enterprise data into actionable business intelligence...

World-renowned expert Rebecca M...

Because they're so complicated, many books on relational databases are either burdensomely academic (Database Management Systems is the classic example of this mode--it's superb, but one practically needs a professor to help you decode it) or so practical-minded as to be overly simple...

There are a myriad of new directions in which databases are growing, presenting new and exciting challenges that promise flux in the whole society, because of the impact and changes the database systems have provoked almost everywhere in modern life...

Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML aims to provide a single record of current research and practical applications in the fuzzy databases...

Fuzzy Databases: Modeling, Design and Implementation focuses on some semantic aspects which have not been studied in previous works and extends the EER model with fuzzy capabilities...

Grid Database Design investigates the origin, background, and components of this new computing model...

Clustering is one of the most fundamental and essential data analysis techniques...

The Handbook of Database Security: Applications & Trends, an edited volume by renowned researchers within data security, provides an up-to-date overview of data security models, techniques, and architectures in a variety of data management applications and settings...

Get up to speed quickly on the new features in IBM DB2 9

In this book, the IBM expert authors provide you with comprehensive technical details and real-world business uses for all of the exciting new features in the current release of DB2 9...

This book is about database security and auditing...

Database books currently tend to fall into two categories: highly theoretical and detailed textbooks and manuals which teach how to use the software but not the underlying theory...

With advances and in-depth applications of computer technologies, and the extensive applications of Web technology in various areas, databases have become the repositories of large volumes of data...

Don't think Joe Celko's Data and Databases: Concepts in Practice is for computer beginners...

All organizations today confront data quality problems, both systemic and structural...

Covering essential aspects of wireless communication relevant to information management, Ubiquitous Mobile Information Management Systems provides a thorough discussion about managing information on Mobile Database Systems (MDS)...

Modern applications are both data and computationally intensive and require the storage and manipulation of voluminous traditional (alphanumeric) and nontraditional data sets (images, text, geometric objects, time-series)...

OLAP enables users to access information from multidimensional data warehouses almost instantly, to view information in any way they like, and to cleanly specify and carry out sophisticated calculations...

The rapidly increasing volume of information contained in relational databases places a strain on databases, performance, and maintainability: DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to optimize database structure for system performance and administration...

What do reserving a seat on an airplane, buying a movie ticket over the Internet, and launching a missile all have in common? Principles of Transaction Processing for the Systems Professional explains that these and many other computerized tasks require the use of transaction processing (TP)...

The Internet and the worldwide web play an increasingly important role in our private and professional activities, for example in accessing information about cultural, political, economical, medical or scientific information...

Refactoring has proven its value in a wide range of development projects helping software professionals improve system designs, maintainability, extensibility, and performance...

Fully revised and updated, Relational Database Design, Second Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to relational database design available...

Improve the performance of relational databases with indexes designed for today's hardware Over the last few years, hardware and software have advanced beyond all recognition, so it's hardly surprising that relational database performance now receives much less attention...

Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems organizes and surveys the spectrum of replication protocols and systems that achieve high availability by replicating entities in failure-prone distributed computing environments...

More than 200 completely solved problems and an equal number of supplementary problems facilitate the understanding of database technology Complete scripts allow students to create and populate all databases used in the book Syntax and database technology employed by the most important database developers are featured, including Oracle, Microsoft Access, and DB2 Lab and practice tests similar to the tests currently used in the database certification exams for database developers are included to help students master database problems

Nowadays, users and clients demand exceptionally usable software...

Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing begins with the introduction of multimedia information applications, the need for the development of the multimedia database management systems (MDBMSs), and the important issues and challenges of multimedia systems...

Semistructured Database Design provides an essential reference for anyone interested in the effective management of semsistructured data...

Spatial Databases: Technologies, Techniques and Trends introduces the reader to the world of spatial databases, and related subtopics...

Researchers in data management have recently recognized the importance of a new class of data-intensive applications that requires managing data streams, i...

Take a tour with leading researchers and developers for a practical look at object databases...

The Berkeley DB Book is a practical guide to the intricacies of the Berkeley DB...

As a document imaging database, Concordance 8 gives you the ability to search through otherwise unmanageable amounts of data to locate just the precise records necessary for the case at hand...

Review "The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition, Volume 1 is the best book I?ve seen on data architecture...

Databases are the nerve center of our economy...

The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML covers Sleepycat's Berkeley DB XML, an embedded XML database...

This is the first official book on Firebird, the free, independent, open source relational database server that sprang forth when Borland's InterBase 6 sources were opened in 2000...

This book focuses on the many enhancements in Sybase ASE 15 including system administration enhancements, function-based indexes, computed columns, scrollable cursors, galaxy optimizer, query plan, galaxy partitions, multiple tempdb, MDA tables, andn Plan Viewer...

Avoid misunderstandings that can affect the design, programming, and use of database systems...

* The heart of the book provides the complete set of models that will support most of an organization's core business functions, including universal meta models for enterprise-wide systems, business meta data and data stewardship, portfolio management, business rules, and XML, messaging, and transactions
* Developers can directly adapt these models to their own businesses, saving countless hours of development time
* Building effective meta data repositories is complicated and time-consuming, and few IT departments have the necessary expertise to do it right-which is why this book is sure to find a ready audience
* Begins with a quick overview of the Meta Data Repository Environment and the business uses of meta data, then goes on to describe the technical architecture followed by the detailed models