Database Design, Application, Development & Administration Information Center: Feature Summary


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Database Design, Application, Development & Administration, 3/e

Michael V. Mannino, University of Colorado - Denver

ISBN: 0072942207
Copyright year: 2007

Feature Summary

The third edition makes significant revisions to the second edition while preserving the proven pedagogy developed in the first two editions. Notable changes include:

Organization of the text's chapters into 7 parts to provide smaller, more manageable learning components.
Introductory coverage of database development appears earlier in the chapter sequence.
Extended coverage of Oracle 10g and SQL 2003, the latest database applications.
Expanded coverage of data modeling and system requirements.
Expanded and updated coverage of the "normalization of data".
Special focus on optimizing the physical database.
New coverage on data warehousing, and the latest trends in data mining.
Expanded coverage of distributed computing.
New end-of-chapter questions, problems, and SQL:2003 syntax summaries.

The text's Online Learning Center (OLC) includes the following highlights:

Two new case studies (Instructor Resources -> Case Studies)
SQL Server material (Instructor Resources)
Material for a second database course (Instructor Resources)
Additional material for a first and second database course (Instructor Resources)
Web Resources (Course Wide Content)

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