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Databases Illuminated
Author: Catherine M. RicardoOVERVIEW
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Databases Illuminated, Fourth Edition is designed to help students integrate theoretical material with practical knowledge, using an approach that applies theory to practical database implementation.
The text helps students understand the difference between traditional database technology and the new directions created by big data, outlining motivation, fundamental concepts, technologies, and challenges associated with handling large datasets.
Each new print copy includes Navigate eBook Access enabling you to read your digital textbook online or offline from your computer, tablet, or mobile device.
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Features and Benefits
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- Expanded coverage of security issues such as SQL Injection with mitigation examples
- New coverage of blockchain databases and their applications
- Reverse engineering of conceptual schemas from relational and object-relational schemas
- Updated discussion of large-scale data models
- Expanded treatment of data warehouses and data analytics, including Big Query, Oracle analytic view enhancements, and MDX
- Expanded discussion of big data and NoSQL, including MongoDB, and Neo4j
- Discussion of latest changes in SQL Standard
- Explanation and examples of new Oracle 18c features including SQL for JSON data, polymorphic tables, SQL analytic functions, approximate query processing, private temporary tables, and non-persistable data types
- Discussion of new Intersystems Cache features, including ObjectScript
- Updated discussion of social and ethical issues, including ethical use of social media, new professional standards for data science professionals, and new privacy legislation
- Consideration of curriculum standards in data science, computer science, and information science.
- Every print text will now include a bound-in access code for the full-color eBook
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Chapter 1 Introductory Database Concepts
- Chapter 2 Database Planning and Database Architecture
- Chapter 3 The Entity-Relationship Model
- Chapter 4 The Relational Model
- Chapter 5 Relational Database Management Systems and SQL
- Chapter 6 Normalization and Denormalization
- Chapter 7 Advanced SQL
- Chapter 8 Introduction to Database Security
- Chapter 9 Object-Based Models
- Chapter 10 Relational Query Optimization
- Chapter 11 Transaction Management
- Chapter 12 Distributed Databases
- Chapter 13 Semi-Structured Data
- Chapter 14 Big Data and NoSQL
- Chapter 15 Data Warehouses
- Chapter 16 Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues
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