Publisher's Synopsis
This text introduces students to database technologies needed in order to design and use future business and commercial applications. This fifth edition provides new features including: four colour design; coverage of semantic-object modelling reinforced by SALSA commercial software packaged with the text; full development of three major trends in database technology in three new chapters "Database Design Using Entity Relationship Models", "Database Design Using Semantic Object Models", and "Relational Implementation on a Personal Computer"; coverage of contemporary data modelling; discussion of client-server database processing; and examples of current DBMS products.;It is designed for students on undergraduate courses in database management, processing or database design.
