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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Databases brings the elements of a database together using easy to understand language, perfect for the true beginner

It not only gives specific hands on practice, but also provides an overview of designing, maintaining and using a database

This book covers what databases are used for, why databases are important, why the design of the database is important, database normalization, keys to solid database design, differences in types of databases, and indexes--what they are, how we use them, and why they are important

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

It begins with a broad overview of the field, identifying the dimensions of adaptive techniques

It then looks at the spectrum of approaches available to adapt query execution at runtime - primarily in a non-streaming context

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

The 42 revised full papers presented together with 2 industrial application papers, 15 software demos, and 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 294 submissions

The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed, mobile and peer-to-peer database systems; data mining and knowledge discovery; trustworthy database systems; innovative query processing techniques for XML data; data and information on the web; query processing techniques for spatial databases; foundations of query processing; advanced query processing and optimization; query processing techniques for data and schemas; multimedia and quality-aware systems; indexing techniques; and imprecise sequence pattern queries

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Advances In Digital Government presents a collection of in-depth articles that addresses a representative cross-section of the matrix of issues involved in implementing digital government systems

These articles constitute a survey of both the technical and policy dimensions related to the design, planning and deployment of digital government systems

The research and development projects within the technical dimension represent a wide range of governmental functions, including the provisioning of health and human services, management of energy information, multi-agency integration, and criminal justice applications

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

Learn to deploy Advantage-enabled applications as stand-alone, peer-to-peer, client/server, and Internet applications with just one set of source code

Plus--CD-ROM contains a trial version of ADS, as well as all of the current database connectivity drivers, database management tools, and configuration tools

* Describes Agile Modeling Driven Design (AMDD) and Test-Driven Design (TDD) approaches, database refactoring, database encapsulation strategies, and tools that support evolutionary techniques
* Agile software developers often use object and relational database (RDB) technology together and as a result must overcome the impedance mismatch
* The author covers techniques for mapping objects to RDBs and for implementing concurrency control, referential integrity, shared business logic, security access control, reports, and XML
* An agile foundation describes fundamental skills that all agile software developers require, particularly Agile DBAs
* Includes object modeling, UML data modeling, data normalization, class normalization, and how to deal with legacy databases
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Scale your application's database on the cloud using Amazon SimpleDB Offload the time, effort, and capital associated with architecting and operating a simple, flexible, and scalable web database A complete guide that covers everything from installation to advanced features aimed at optimizing your application Examine SimpleDB and the relational database model and review the Simple DB data model Packed with examples in Java, PHP, and Python and screenshots to illustrate key concepts allowing you to focus application development

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SimpleDB is a highly scalable, simple-to-use, and inexpensive database in the cloud from Amazon Web Services

But in order to use SimpleDB, you really have to change your mindset

This isn't a traditional relational database; in fact it's not relational at all

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

A far more powerful way of thinking lies in relational technologys foundation in the mathematical disciplines of logic and set theory

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

Architecture of a Database System presents an architectural discussion of DBMS design principles, including process models, parallel architecture, storage system design, transaction system implementation, query processor and optimizer architectures, and typical shared components and utilities

Successful commercial and open-source systems are used as points of reference, particularly when multiple alternative designs have been adopted by different groups

The new world of cloud computing needs data storage

CouchDB is the scalable, portable, simple database engine that is helping open source cloud architects put their data stores onto a firm foundation

Beginning CouchDB provides the tools to begin using this very powerful database engine without having to pay license fees for the software, or worry about administrator?

Beginning Database-Driven Application Development in Java? EE: Using GlassFish? focuses on the open source GlassFish persistence engine

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

Berkeley DB is an embedded database that provides high-performance, scalable, transaction-protected and recoverable data management services to applications

Extremely portable, this library runs under almost all UNIX and Windows variants, as well as a number of embedded, real-time operating systems

Modern biological research 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

This collection of next-generation biodata modeling techniques combines innovative concepts, methods, and applications with case studies in genome, microarray, proteomics, and drug discovery projects to help bioinformatics professionals develop ever-more powerful data management systems in any domain

Breaking new ground at the intersection of life sciences and data management, the book introduces practitioners to core biodata modeling techniques, biological database resources, and ontology concepts

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

Together, these contributions form the first book devoted entirely to the technical and architectural design of component-based database systems

In addition to detailing the current state of their research, the authors also take up many of the issues affecting the likely future directions of component databases

Three of CouchDB's creators show you how to use this document-oriented database as a standalone application framework or with high-volume, distributed applications

With its simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data, CouchDB is ideal for web applications that handle huge amounts of loosely structured data

That alone would stretch the limits of a relational database, yet CouchDB offers an open source solution that's reliable, scales easily, and responds quickly

A range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM

This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data

Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available

A range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM

This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data

Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available

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

It is therefore imperative for a company to optimize and simplify the complexity of managing its data resources

Plenty of storage products are now available, however the challenge remains for companies to proactively manage their storage assets and align the resources to the various departments, divisions, geographical locations and business processes to achieve improved efficiency and profitability

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

It is based on the research conducted at the MIT Total Data Quality Management (TDQM) program and work from other leading research institutions

This book is intended primarily for researchers, practitioners, educators and graduate students in the fields of Computer Science, Information Technology, and other interdisciplinary areas

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

The growing awareness of such repercussions has led to major public initiatives like the `Data Quality Act` in the USA and the `European 2003/98` directive of the European Parliament

Batini and Scannapieco present a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the wide set of issues related to data quality

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

Corporate data is increasingly important as companies continue to find new ways to use it

Likewise, improving the accuracy of data in information systems is fast becoming a major goal as companies realize how much it affects their bottom line

Explains and examines each of the components that comprise the discipline of database administration

Provides an overview of the responsibilities of database administrators (DBAs) along with the various 'flavors' of DBAs and their tasks

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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

This important and timely new book explains how to solve these challenges without compromising the operation of current systems

It shows how to do all this as part of a standardized archival process that requires modest contributions from team members throughout an organization, rather than the superhuman effort of a dedicated team

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

Database in Depth: The Relational Model for Practitioners goes beyond the hype and gets to the heart of how relational databases actually work

Ideal for experienced database developers and designers, this concise guide gives you a clear view of the technology--a view that's not influenced by any vendor or product

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

The software design is impacted by the properties of the data

Data properties should be seen from a point of view as independently as possible from the representation model

Designed for an introductory database course, this new text emphasizes conceptual and physical database design and tuning

Database Management Systems also covers advanced topics that can be used for a second course in database

These topics include parallel and distributed database systems, transaction processing, decision support, object-relational systems, and active and deductive database systems

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

The relational data model and relational database systems dominate business applications; in turn, they are extended by other technologies like data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining

How do you model and design your database application in consideration of new technology or new business needs?

Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the leading researchers in the field of industrial database modeling, Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications provides a single record of current research and practical applications in industrial database modeling

This book discusses the major aspects of databases for industry: data modeling, database models, and database applications in information systems

Readers of Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications will gain a complete understanding of the notions, techniques, and methods related to the research and developments of industrial database modeling, which will serve as both a starting point and a reference for their research and developments

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

It is essential to address each level separately by focusing first on underlying principles and root causes, and only then proposing both theoretical and practical solutions

`Database Performance Tuning and Optimization` comprehensively addresses each level separately by focusing first on underlying principles and root causes, and then proposes both theoretical and practical solutions using Oracle 8i examples as the RDBMS

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

The 16 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully selected from 41 submissions

The papers are organized in topical sections on algorithms, XML query languages, inconsistency handling, data provenance, emerging data models, and type checking

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The main aim of this work is to provide one readable text of essential core material for most higher education and commercial courses on database systems

The book was developed from the author's experiences of running a number of academic and commercial courses on database technology for more than seven years

The text is organised into a number of parts

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

This market leading text includes new Visio and UML tutorials, as well as a new chapter on Advanced SQL

All appendices are housed on a CD that accompany every copy of the text

Essential Database Skills--Made Easy!

Learn standard database design and management techniques applicable to any type of database

Featuring clear examples using both Microsoft Access and Oracle, Databases: A Beginner's Guide begins by showing you how to use Structured Query Language (SQL) to create and access database objects

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

The contributions are from academics and practitioners from the entire world

The editors hope that the presented results will contribute to the further development of research in the field of databases and information systems

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

Quickly learn the core skills needed to design, configure, manage, and manipulate databases, whether at work or at home

Topics such as exploring different database models, planning their design, minimizing redundant data, designing tables, applying database design concepts, and implementing database security are covered

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

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DBA Survivor is a book to help new DBAs understand more about the world of database administration

More and more people are moving into the DBA profession, and many are looking for a getting-started guide

Blogs are written about how to be an exceptional DBA and what to do in your first 100 days

An introductory text aimed at those with an undergraduate knowledge of database & information systems describing the origins of deductive database in Prolog, & then goes on to analyse the main deductive database paradigm - the datalog model

`Riordan covers core skills for any developer--database design and development--in a perfect amount of detail

This book should be on every professional developer's reading list

` --Duncan Mackenzie, developer, Microsoft (MSDN)`Designing a database is not a trivial subject

The multi-volume Encyclopedia of Database Systems provides easy access to relevant information on all aspects of very large databases, data management, and database systems

Over 1,400 illustrated essays and definitional entries, organized alphabetically, present basic terminology, concepts, methods and data processing algorithms, key results to date, references to the literature, and cross-references to other entries and journal articles

Topics for the Encyclopedia ?

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

This ranges from the way the organizations operate and make their business decisions, to the use of portable devices with database involvements

The Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications is a wide-ranging collection of diverse coverage of topics related to database concepts, technologies, and applications - providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of classical subjects

Data quality problems cost businesses billions of dollars each year in unnecessary printing, postage, and staffing costs, in the steady erosion of an organization's credibility among customers and suppliers, and the inability to make sound decisions



Danette McGilvray presents a systematic, proven approach to improving data quality by combining a conceptual framework for understanding information quality with techniques and instructions for improving it

The Ten Step approach applies to all types of data and to all types of organizations

Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection describes the foundational framework for efficient Web service selection

It lays out a theoretical underpinning for the design of models and algorithms for searching and optimizing access to Web services

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The definitive book on the foundations and theory of database systems, including advanced topics not presented in any other survey book

Includes a comprehensive resource useful for any database researcher or practitioner that covers both fundamental and advanced topics

Fundamentals of Database Systems has become the world-wide leading textbook because it combines clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and excellent examples with up-to-date introductions and modern database technologies

This book has been revised and updated to reflect the latest trends in technological and application development

This fourth edition expands on many of the most popular database topics, including SQL, security, and data mining along with an introduction to UML modeling and an entirely new chapter on XML and Internet databases

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

This volume is the outgrowth of research the author has conducted in recent years

Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML introduces state-of-the-art information to the database research, while at the same time serving the information technology professional faced with a non-traditional application that defeats conventional approaches

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

The exposed model is called FuzzyEER model, and some of the studied extensions are: fuzzy attributes, fuzzy aggregations and different aspects on specializations, such as fuzzy degrees, fuzzy constraints, etc

All these fuzzy extensions offer greater expressiveness in conceptual design

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

Clustering can be used as an independent data mining task to discern intrinsic characteristics of data, or as a preprocessing step with the clustering results then used for classification, correlation analysis, or anomaly detection

Kogan and his co-editors have put together recent advances in clustering large and high-dimension data

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

This edited volume represents the most comprehensive work on numerous data security aspects published in the last ten years

The Handbook of Database Security: Applications & Trends places a particular focus on data-centric security aspects that reach beyond traditional and well-studied data security aspects in databases

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

Fuzzy databases have been studied in many works and papers but, in general, these works study some particular area and many works are theoretical works, with very few real applications

The Handbook of Research on Fuzzy Information Processing in Databases provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies in fuzzy topics applied to databases, discussing current investigation into uncertainty and imprecision management by means of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic in the field of databases and data mining

As Web-based systems and e-commerce carry businesses into the 21st century, databases are becoming workhorses that shoulder each and every online transaction

For organizations to have effective 24/7 Web operations, they need powerhouse databases that deliver at peak performance-all the time

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

Covers user requirements, data modeling, metadata, and more


· A sample application is used throughout the book to illustrate concepts

Information intermediation is the foundation stone of some of the most successful Internet companies, and is perhaps second only to the Internet Infrastructure companies

On the heels of information integration and interoperability, this book on information brokering discusses the next step in information interoperability and integration

The emerging Internet economy based on burgeoning B2B and B2C trading will soon demand semantics-based information intermediation for its feasibility and success

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

It is very critical to manage data resources for effective problem solving and decision making

Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the leading researchers in the field of intelligent databases, Intelligent Databases: Technologies and Applications provides a single record of current research and practical applications in this field

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

For example, digital libraries and the World Wide Web continue to grow exponentially, the ability to find useful information increasingly depends on the indexing infrastructure or search engine

Clustering techniques can be used to discover natural groups in data sets and to identify abstract structures that might reside there, without having any background knowledge of the characteristics of the data

Constraint databases provide extra expressive power over relational databases in a largely hidden way at the data-storage or physical level

Constraints, such as linear or polynomial equations, are used to represent large sets in a compact manner

They keep the view of the database for a user or application programmer almost as simple as in relational databases

Perform Research Tasks with Ease

Focuses on computer languages as tools for data management
Providing key information on how to work with research data, Introduction to Data Technologies presents ideas and techniques for performing critical, behind-the-scenes tasks that take up so much time and effort yet typically receive little attention in formal education

With a focus on computational tools, the book shows readers how to improve their awareness of what tasks can be achieved and describes the correct approach to perform these tasks

Practical examples demonstrate the most important points
The author first discusses how to write computer code using HTML as a concrete example

This textbook reveals the workings of numerous database systems, enabling readers to develop complex database applications

Students will gain hands-on experience by following the exercises

The theory is complemented by detailed examination of specific applications from a broad range of areas

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 SQL's declarative, set-oriented programming

This book covers the next step in your growth

OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing), Data Warehousing and Analytics involve seeing data in the aggregate and over time, not as single transactions

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

It starts by defining mathematically what data is, relationships between data, and how all this becomes the information and wisdom that you really want from your database, with a host of fascinating examples and warnings

Read the introduction and you'll even understand statistics better

Perfectly intelligent programmers often struggle when forced to work with SQL

Why? Joe Celko believes the problem lies with their procedural programming mindset, which keeps them from taking full advantage of the power of declarative languages

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

Neither ad hoc approaches nor fixes at the systems level?installing the latest software or developing an expensive data warehouse?

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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

Truly international in its examples, research, advice, and knowledge, this book is rich with avenues and ideas about approaching prospective givers--and generous with cross-cultural tips about conducting cultivation and solicitation in various countries

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

To manage this data, provide interoperability and warehousing between multiple data sources and systems, and extract information from the databases and warehouses, various tools are being developed

In fact, developments in multimedia database management have exploded during the past decade

Managing Time in Relational Databases shows how to make the rich information content of bi-temporal data available to business users, while simplifying the design, maintenance and retrieval of that data

Metadata declarations eliminate the need to directly model temporal data

Temporal data maintenance is isolated in code that can be invoked to update bi-temporal data in any database and from any application program, across the enterprise

A breakthrough sourcebook to the challenges and solutions for mobile database systems

This text enables readers to effectively manage mobile database systems (MDS) and data dissemination via wireless channels

The author explores the mobile communication platform and analyzes its use in the development of a distributed database management system

Workable solutions for key challenges in wireless information management are presented throughout the text

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

It's noted for its focus on the latest principles, concepts and technologies and what leading practitioners say is most important for database developers



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The current trends in consumer electronics--including the use of GPS-equipped PDAs, phones, and vehicles, as well as the RFID-tag tracking and sensor networks--require the database support of a specific flavor of spatio-temporal databases

These we call Moving Objects Databases



Why do you need this book?

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)

Examples of such emerging application domains are: Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Multimedia Information Systems, CAD/CAM, Time-Series Analysis, Medical Information Sstems, On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), and Data Mining

These applications pose diverse requirements with respect to the information and the operations that need to be supported

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

Although many commercial OLAP tools and products are now available, OLAP is still a difficult and complex technology to master


* Substantially updated with expanded coverage of implementation methods for data storage, access, and calculation; also, new chapters added to combine OLAP with data warehouse, mining, and decision support tools
* Teaches the best practices for building OLAP models that improve business and organizational decision-making, completely independent of commercial tools, using revised case studies
* Companion Web site provides updates on OLAP standards and tools, code examples, and links to valuable resources

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Unclear and wordy
I had high hopes for this book since I am a data miner who senses the need for alternatives to the slow tools commonly used to assemble large data sets for analysis

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)

Authors Philip Bernstein and Eric Newcomer demonstrate that this previously specialized area of systems design is becoming more important with the growth of Internet commerce

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)

Authors Philip Bernstein and Eric Newcomer demonstrate that this previously specialized area of systems design is becoming more important with the growth of Internet commerce

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

Many people assume that they can access such information privately

This book addresses the topic of querying information privately in a systematic and comprehensive way, developing practical solutions in the context of database systems

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

The entities discussed in this book vary from passive untyped data objects, to typed and complex objects, to processes and messages

Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems contains definitions and introductory material suitable for a beginner, theoretical foundations and algorithms, an annotated bibliography of commercial and experimental prototype systems, as well as short guides to recommended further readings in specialized subtopics

`Rebecca provides an invaluable resource to help developers focus on a commonly overlooked but vital part of an application--the user experience

` --David Sceppa, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation `Rebecca Riordan takes UI programming and practices to new heights

She has gone byond simply explaining the theory behind UI programming practices, providing code samples that are practical, well-documented, and can be immediately incorporated into a development project

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

The temporal relations, the spatial relations, the spatio-temporal relations, and several semantic models for multimedia information systems are also introduced

In addition, this book discusses recent advances in multimedia database searching and multimedia database browsing

Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: A Guide to Common Tools and Databases pulls together all of the vital information about the most commonly used databases, analytical tools, and tables used in sequence analysis

The book is partitioned into three fundamental areas to help you maximize your use of the content

The first section, `Databases` contains examples of flatfiles from key databases (GenBank, EMBL, SWISS-PROT), the definitions of the codes or fields used in each database, and the sequence feature types/terms and qualifiers for the nucleotide and protein databases

Commercial systems built today are increasingly using XML technologies for storing any amount of text or data

Services and Business Computing Solutions with XML: Applications for Quality Management and Best Processes collects the latest research for academicians and practitioners that describes the use and synergy between data structure technologies

This book explores and investigates various issues of XML data and related applications summarized by Web services

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

The broad range of topics covered within the chapters includes spatial data modeling, indexing of spatial and spatiotemporal objects, data mining and knowledge discovery in spatial and spatiotemporal management issues and query processing for moving objects

The reader will be able to get in touch with several important research issues the research community is dealing with today

The definitive guide to dimensional design for your data warehouse

Learn the best practices of dimensional design

Star Schema: The Complete Reference offers in-depth coverage of design principles and their underlying rationales

Organized around design concepts and illustrated with detailed examples, this is a step-by-step guidebook for beginners and a comprehensive resource for experts

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

e

, data composed of continuous, real-time sequence of items

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

Whether you currently work with or are thinking of moving to object databases, Chaudhri and Zicari provide a collection of real-world case studies and examples that demonstrate how some of the world?s leading companies and research institutions are leveraging Java, XML, and Object Relational Systems to build robust databases

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

This book covers in-depth the complex design issues that are mostly only touched on in terse footnotes within the dense Berkeley DB reference manual

It explains the technology at a higher level and also covers the internals, providing generous code and design examples

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

The product also boasts extensive case analysis and organization features

This leaves you free to organize and manipulate crucial documents as you choose

The Data Access Handbook

Achieving Optimal Database Application Performance and Scalability

John Goodson ? Robert A

Steward

Drive breakthrough database application performance by optimizing middleware and connectivity

Performance and scalability are more critical than ever in today?

Databases are the nerve center of our economy

Every piece of your personal information is stored there-medical records, bank accounts, employment history, pensions, car registrations, even your children's grades and what groceries you buy

Database attacks are potentially crippling-and relentless

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

Berkeley DB XML runs on all major operating systems and has support for the most popular programming languages

The book includes tutorials and complete language references for C++, Java, Perl, Python, and PHP

The Firebird Book: A Reference for Database Developers

Although less publicized than other open source database management systems, Firebird continues to gain a dedicated following of professional users

Figures have already reached hundreds of thousands worldwide, in Firebird?s short three-year history in open source

This book presents the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science, with the goal of influencing the worldwide scientific and computing research communities and inspiring the next generation of scientists

Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets

The speed at which any given scientific discipline advances will depend on how well its researchers collaborate with one another, and with technologists, in areas of eScience such as databases, workflow management, visualization, and cloud-computing technologies

The architectural concept of a memory hierarchy has been immensely successful, making possible today's spectacular pace of technology evolution in both the volume of data and the speed of data access

Its success is difficult to understand, however, when examined within the traditional `memoryless` framework of performance analysis

The `memoryless' framework cannot properly reflect a memory hierarchy's ability to take advantage of patterns of data use that are transient

The protection of the investment made in collecting, verifying or presenting database contents is still not harmonised internationally

Some laws overprotect database contents, whilst others under-protect them

This book examines and compares several types of methods available for the protection of investment in database creation (intellectual property, unfair competition, contract and technological protection measures) in order to find an adequate type and level of protection

Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you

Princess Ruruna is stressed out

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 is a high-performance, mission-critical database management system designed to meet the increasing demands of large databases and high-transaction volumes, while providing a cost-effective database management system

The Official New Features Guide to Sybase ASE 15 focuses on the many enhancements in Sybase ASE 15 including semantic partitions, computed columns, functional indexes, and scrollable cursors

With this book: Learn about the enhancements to ASE 15, how the new features can increase your efficiency and productivity, and how these features integrate with existing systems

Transactional Information Systems is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading scientists in the transaction processing field

Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at the role of transactional technology in today's economic and scientific endeavors, then delve into critical issues faced by all practitioners, presenting today's most effective techniques for controlling concurrent access by multiple clients, recovering from system failures, and coordinating distributed transactions

The authors emphasize formal models that are easily applied across fields, that promise to remain valid as current technologies evolve, and that lend themselves to generalization and extension in the development of new classes of network-centric, functionally rich applications

Application developers, take note: databases aren't just for the IS group any more

You can build database-backed applications for the desktop, Web, embedded systems, or operating systems without linking to heavy-duty client-server databases such as Oracle and MySQL

This book shows you how to use SQLite, a small and lightweight relational database engine that you can build directly into your application

Great advances have been made in the database field

Relational and object- oriented databases, distributed and client/server databases, and large-scale data warehousing are among the more notable

However, none of these advances promises to have as great and direct an effect on the daily lives of ordinary citizens as video databases