Post G.V. Database Management Systems. Designing and Building Business Applications. Version 6.0.0

JerryPost.com, 2014. — 670 p. — ISBN: N\A.Working with business information systems is exciting. You get to work with people to find ways to improve their jobs. You get to use your creativity to build new applications. You often work on teams to share ideas and techniques. In the end, you get to see an application that you built help companies and people. Database
management systems are key components in almost every business application. They organize and store the data so it can be retrieved and analyzed.
The goal of this text is straightforward: At the end of the text students should be able to evaluate a business situation and build a database application. Building an application requires four basic steps. The book is organized by these four steps:
(1) Database Design,
(2) SQL Queries,
(3) Application forms and reports, and
(4) Database administration.
The first two steps (design and SQL) are standard for almost every database management system. Normalization shows how to carefully design databases to gain the strengths of the database approach. SQL is a standard query language that is used for virtually every step of application development. These two topics must be covered carefully and thoroughly, particularly because they are both difficult topics for students.