A new edition of the highly praised introduction to dBASE, now covering the latesst release of the software. Easy tutorials cover all the essentials of database management, but at a pace that won't intimidate newcomers. Step-by-step examples cover mailing list management, inventory, and accounting tasks.
Aims to provide a handy guide for dBase IV 1.5 beginners. It provides many hands-one examples and explanations which focus on using dBase IV 1.5 most effectively. It covers everything from simple customer files to multi-file databases and shows how to create a user first database in minutes.
This book presents many hands-on examples and in-depth descriptions of using dBASE IV effectively. Will appeal to absolute beginners, with little or no computer experience, as well as to experienced dBASE users. Includes several useful appendixes.
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The second edition of this bestselling title is a perfect blend of theoretical knowledge and practical application. It progresses gradually from basic to advance concepts in database management systems, with numerous solved exercises to make learning easier and interesting. New to this edition are discussions on more commercial database management systems.
Advanced Database Indexing begins by introducing basic material on storage media, including magnetic disks, RAID systems and tertiary storage such as optical disk and tapes. Typical access methods (e.g. B+ trees, dynamic hash files and secondary key retrieval) are also introduced. The remainder of the book discusses recent advances in indexing and access methods for particular database applications. More specifically, issues such as external sorting, file structures for intervals, temporal access methods, spatial and spatio-temporal indexing, image and multimedia indexing, perfect external hashing methods, parallel access methods, concurrency issues in indexing and parallel external sorting are presented for the first time in a single book. Advanced Database Indexing is an excellent reference for database professionals and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.