eBook By Category (Databases)

Adaptive Query Processing surveys the fundamental issues, techniques, costs, and benefits of adaptive query processing...

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...

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...

Morden biological resereach in areas like drug discovery produces a staggering volume of data, and the right modeling tools can help scientists apply it in ways never before imaginable...

Component Database Systems is a collection of invited chapters by the researchers making the most influential contributions in the database industry's trend toward componentization

This book represents the sometimes-divergent, sometimes-convergent approaches taken by leading database vendors as they seek to establish commercially viable componentization strategies...

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

In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment...

"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...

With the amount of data a business accumulates now doubling every 12 to 18 months, IT professionals need to know how to develop a system for archiving important database data, in a way that both satisfies regulatory requirements and is durable and secure...

Database Design is the book you need to master the fundamentals of relational database design in today's ever-evolving world of database technologies...

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...

Examples abound in database applications of well-formulated queries running slowly, even if all levels of the database are properly tuned...

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...

Deductive Databases and their Applications is an introductory text aimed at undergraduate students with some knowledge of database and information systems...

Transform disparate enterprise data into actionable business intelligence...

Design and Use of Relational Databases in Chemistry helps programmers and users improve their ability to search and manipulate chemical structures and information, especially when using chemical database “cartridges�...

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...

Information is currency...

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...

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...

Information technology is one of the most rapidly changing disciplines, especially with the fuzzy extension...

· This is the only book that demonstrates how to develop a business rules engine...

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...

Information Modeling and Relational Databases provides an introduction to ORM (Object Role Modeling)-and much more...

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...

There is a growing need for a more automated system of partitioning data sets into groups, or clusters...

Before SQL programmers could begin working with OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) systems, they had to unlearn procedural, record-oriented programming before moving on to SQLs declarative, set-oriented programming...

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...

Boost Your Nonprofit's Success!

Written by a sterling group of experts for their nonprofit peers, Major Donors: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online supplies all types of nonprofit organizations with the best strategies for navigating the ever-changing world of fundraising on the Internet...

There is now so much data on the Web that managing it with conventional tools is becoming almost impossible...

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 Database Management is the leading text in the business database market...

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)...

Conceptually, a database consists of objects and relationships...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data...

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...

A quick and reliable way to build proven databases for core business functions
Industry experts raved about The Data Model Resource Book when it was first published in March 1997 because it provided a simple, cost-effective way to design databases for core business functions...

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 study of relationship databases is a core component of virtually every undergraduate computer science degree course...

* 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