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What’s New in the Fourth Edition

The fourth edition of the book has been revised to improve readability, to update or to

extend coverage of existing material, and to include new material. The major changes in

the fourth edition are as follows.

n Extended treatment of normalization (original chapter has been divided into two).

n Streamlined methodology for database design using UML notation for ER diagrams.

n New section on use of other parts of UML within analysis and design, covering use

cases, sequence, collaboration, statechart, and activity diagrams.

n New section on enumeration of execution strategies within query optimization for both

centralized and distributed DBMSs.

n Coverage of OMG specifications including the Common Warehouse Metamodel

(CWM) and the Model Driven Architecture (MDA).

n Object-Relational chapter updated to reflect the new SQL:2003 standard.

n Extended treatment of Web–DBMS integration, including coverage of Container-

Managed Persistence (CMP), Java Data Objects (JDO), and ADO.NET.

n Extended treatment of XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 (including

the revised Data Model and Formal Semantics), SQL:2003 SQL/XML standard,

storage of XML in relational databases, and native XML databases.

n Extended treatment of OLAP and data mining including the functionality of SQL:2003

and the CRISP-DM model.

n Coverage updated to Oracle9i (overview of Oracle10g) and Microsoft Office Access

2003.

n Additional Web resources, including extended chapter on file organizations and storage

structures, full Web implementation of the DreamHome case study, a user guide for

Oracle, and more examples for the Appendix on Web–DBMS integration.

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