Relational Database Design and Implementation, 4th Edition

Relational Database Design and Implementation: Clearly Explained, Fourth Edition,

provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a database design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance.

Database systems underlie the large majority of business information systems. Most of those in use today are based on the relational data model, a way of representing data and data relationships using only two-dimensional tables. This book covers relational database theory as well as providing a solid introduction to SQL, the international standard for the relational database data manipulation language.

The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database design, then turns to creating, populating, and retrieving data using SQL. Topics such as the relational data model, normalization, data entities, and Codd’s Rules (and why they are important) are covered clearly and concisely. In addition, the book looks at the impact of big data on relational databases and the option of using NoSQL databases for that purpose.

• Features updated and expanded coverage of SQL and new material on big data, cloud computing, and object-relational databases
• Presents design approaches that ensure data accuracy and consistency and help boost performance
• Includes three case studies, each illustrating a different database design challenge
• Reviews the basic concepts of databases and database design, then turns to creating, populating, and retrieving data using SQL

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Database Environment
Chapter 2: Systems Analysis and Database Requirements

Part II: Relational database design theory
Chapter 3: Why Good Design Matters
Chapter 4: Entities and Relationships
Chapter 5: The Relational Data Model
Chapter 6: Relational Algebra
Chapter 7: Normalization
Chapter 8: Database Design and Performance Tuning
Chapter 9: Codd’s Rules for Relational DBMSs

Part III: Relational database design practice
Chapter 10: Introduction to SQL
Chapter 11: Using SQL to Implement a Relational Design
Chapter 12: Using CASE Tools for Database Design
Chapter 13: Database Design Case Study #1: Mighty-Mite Motors
Chapter 14: Database Design Case Study #2: East Coast Aquarium
Chapter 15: Database Design Case Study #3: SmartMart

Part IV: Using interactive SQL to manipulate a relational database
Chapter 16: Simple SQL Retrieval
Chapter 17: Retrieving Data from More Than One Table
Chapter 18: Advanced Retrieval Operations
Chapter 19: Working With Groups of Rows
Chapter 20: Data Modification
Chapter 21: Creating Additional Structural Elements

Part V: Database implementation issues
Chapter 22: Concurrency Control
Chapter 23: Database Security
Chapter 24: Data Warehousing
Chapter 25: Data Quality

Part VI: Beyond the relational data model
Chapter 26: XML Support
Chapter 27: Object-Relational Databases
Chapter 28: Relational Databases and “Big Data”: The Alternative of a NoSQL Solution

Part VII: Appendices
Appendix A: Historical Antecedents
Appendix B: SQL Programming
Appendix C: SQL Syntax Summary