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Distinguishing Features
(1) An easy-to-use, step-by-step methodology for conceptual and logical database
design, based on the widely accepted Entity–Relationship model, with normalization
used as a validation technique. There is an integrated case study showing how to use
the methodology.
(2) An easy-to-use, step-by-step methodology for physical database design, covering
the mapping of the logical design to a physical implementation, the selection of file
organizations and indexes appropriate for the applications, and when to introduce
controlled redundancy. Again, there is an integrated case study showing how to use
the methodology.
(3) There are separate chapters showing how database design fits into the overall database
systems development lifecycle, how fact-finding techniques can be used to
identify the system requirements, and how UML fits into the methodology.
(4) A clear and easy-to-understand presentation, with definitions clearly highlighted,
chapter objectives clearly stated, and chapters summarized. Numerous examples and
diagrams are provided throughout each chapter to illustrate the concepts. There is a
realistic case study integrated throughout the book and further case studies that can
be used as student projects.
(5) Extensive treatment of the latest formal and de facto standards: SQL (Structured
Query Language), QBE (Query-By-Example), and the ODMG (Object Data
Management Group) standard for object-oriented databases.
(6) Three tutorial-style chapters on the SQL standard, covering both interactive and
embedded SQL.

(7) An overview chapter covering two of the most popular commercial DBMSs:
Microsoft Office Access and Oracle. Many of the subsequent chapters examine
how Microsoft Office Access and Oracle support the mechanisms that are being
discussed.
(8) Comprehensive coverage of the concepts and issues relating to distributed DBMSs
and replication servers.
(9) Comprehensive introduction to the concepts and issues relating to object-based
DBMSs including a review of the ODMG standard, and a tutorial on the object management
facilities within the latest release of the SQL standard, SQL:2003.
(10) Extensive treatment of the Web as a platform for database applications with many
code samples of accessing databases on the Web. In particular, we cover persistence
through Container-Managed Persistence (CMP), Java Data Objects (JDO), JDBC,
SQLJ, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), ADO.NET, and Oracle PL/SQL Pages (PSP).
(11) An introduction to semistructured data and its relationship to XML and extensive
coverage of XML and its related technologies. In particular, we cover XML Schema,
XQuery, and the XQuery Data Model and Formal Semantics. We also cover the
integration of XML into databases and examine the extensions added to SQL:2003
to enable the publication of XML.
(12) Comprehensive introduction to data warehousing, Online Analytical Processing
(OLAP), and data mining.
(13) Comprehensive introduction to dimensionality modeling for designing a data warehouse
database. An integrated case study is used to demonstrate a methodology for
data warehouse database design.
(14) Coverage of DBMS system implementation concepts, including concurrency and
recovery control, security, and query processing and query optimization.