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Databases Demystified by Andrew Oppel (Paperback - Mar 1, 2004)

The fast and easy way to understanding the fundamentals of databases. If you're tired of wading through huge technical manuals that drown you in jargon, making it difficult to decipher database fundamentals, help has finally arrived. Databases Demystified is user-friendly, engaging, easy to follow, and designed for the non-expert wanting to quickly learn the ins and outs of databases and immediately apply concepts learned. Its step-by-step approach and detailed explanations of database design make this a comprehensive resource covering all the tools you need to build and manage your database.

Learn how to form database queries using Microsoft Access and SQL, explore methods for connecting a database to applications, and discover how to store your historical data for analyses. From logical data design using normalization to database security and data warehousing, Databases Demystified gets your database up and running in no time. Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Databases Demystified is your shortcut to mastering databases.  

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional by Clare Churcher (Paperback - Jan 15, 2007)

Beginning Database Design: From Novice to Professional provides short, easy-to-read explanations of how to get database design right the first time. This book offers numerous examples to help you avoid the many pitfalls that entrap new and not-so-new database designers. Through the help of use cases and class diagrams modeled in the UML, you'll learn how to discover and represent the details and scope of the problem in question.

Database design is not an exact science, and solid database design principles and examples help demonstrate the consequences of simplifications and pragmatic decisions. The rationale is to try to keep it simple, but allow room for development as situations change or resources permit. The book also features an introduction for implementing the final design in a relational database.  

There are new chapters such as Advanced Modeling Concepts, Database Performance Tuning and Query Optimization, and Database Connectivity and Web Development. In the seventh edition you will find examples of database usage, which highlights eBAY for compelling context. In our new Query Optimization chapter, we cover database performance tuning concepts, index selectivity and SQL coding practices. There is added EERD coverage such as clusters and subtype discriminator attributes. With the authors’ strong writing style and outstanding balance of theory and practice, this is just a small sampling of the improvements we have made to the new edition of Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management by Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel.  

Access 2007 For Dummies by Laurie Ulrich Fuller, Ken Cook, and John Kaufeld (Paperback - Dec 26, 2006)

Reduce stress with timesaving database shortcuts. Explore database basics and build tables and reports that corral your data. Access has undergone an extreme makeover! Whether you've used one of the older versions or this is your first exposure to Access, here's where you'll find the essentials you need to make this database system work for you. Cruise around the new interface, team up Access with other Office applications, use wizards to automate your work, and much more.

Discover how to

• Create a new Access database
• Import and export data
• Build forms for efficient data entry
• Search tables for specific data
• Construct custom reports
• Customize your database navigation

Modern Database Management is the leading text in the business database market. It's noted for its focus on the latest principles, concepts and technologies and what leading practitioners say is most important for database developers.  

This book teaches you how to design entire interfaces around large, complex data sets with the help of a powerful new design and prototyping tool called "Processing." This book teaches you: The seven stages of visualizing data -- acquire, parse, filter, mine, represent, refine, and interact. Several example projects with the code to make them work. Positive and negative points of each representation discussed. The focus is on customization so that each one best suits what you want toconvey about your data set. Visualizing Data teaches you how to answer questions, not simply display information.  

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• Head First SQL: Your Brain on SQL -- A Learner's Guide (Head First) by Lynn Beighley (Paperback - September 1, 2007)
• Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (3rd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself) by Ben Forta (Paperback - April 10, 2004)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 2005 by Brian Larson (Paperback - December 12, 2005)
• Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design, 4th Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Toby J. Teorey, Sam S. Lightstone, Tom Nadeau (Paperback - September 6, 2005)
• Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition by Graeme Simsion, Graham Witt (Paperback - November 4, 2004)
• Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition by Hugh E. Williams, David Lane(Paperback - May 16, 2004)