The New Relational Database Dictionary
The New Relational Database Dictionary

Author: C.J. Date

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2015-12-21

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 1491951699

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No matter what DBMS you are using—Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL—misunderstandings can always arise over the precise meanings of terms, misunderstandings that can have a serious effect on the success of your database projects. For example, here are some common database terms: attribute, BCNF, consistency, denormalization, predicate, repeating group, join dependency. Do you know what they all mean? Are you sure? The New Relational Database Dictionary defines all of these terms and many, many more. Carefully reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and completeness, this book is an authoritative and comprehensive resource for database professionals, with over 1700 entries (many with examples) dealing with issues and concepts arising from the relational model of data. DBAs, database designers, DBMS implementers, application developers, and database professors and students can find the information they need on a daily basis, information that isn’t readily available anywhere else.

The New Relational Database Dictionary
The New Relational Database Dictionary

Author: C.J. Date

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2015-12-21

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1491951710

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No matter what DBMS you are using—Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL—misunderstandings can always arise over the precise meanings of terms, misunderstandings that can have a serious effect on the success of your database projects. For example, here are some common database terms: attribute, BCNF, consistency, denormalization, predicate, repeating group, join dependency. Do you know what they all mean? Are you sure? The New Relational Database Dictionary defines all of these terms and many, many more. Carefully reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and completeness, this book is an authoritative and comprehensive resource for database professionals, with over 1700 entries (many with examples) dealing with issues and concepts arising from the relational model of data. DBAs, database designers, DBMS implementers, application developers, and database professors and students can find the information they need on a daily basis, information that isn’t readily available anywhere else.

The Relational Database Dictionary
The Relational Database Dictionary

Author: C.J. Date

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 0596527985

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This book provides a single source where designers, programmers, students, and DBAs using Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other relational database systems can find precise definitions.

Relational Database Design and Implementation
Relational Database Design and Implementation

Author: Jan L. Harrington

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13: 0128499028

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Relational Database Design and Implementation: Clearly Explained, Fourth Edition, provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a database design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance. Database systems underlie the large majority of business information systems. Most of those in use today are based on the relational data model, a way of representing data and data relationships using only two-dimensional tables. This book covers relational database theory as well as providing a solid introduction to SQL, the international standard for the relational database data manipulation language. The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database design, then turns to creating, populating, and retrieving data using SQL. Topics such as the relational data model, normalization, data entities, and Codd's Rules (and why they are important) are covered clearly and concisely. In addition, the book looks at the impact of big data on relational databases and the option of using NoSQL databases for that purpose. - Features updated and expanded coverage of SQL and new material on big data, cloud computing, and object-relational databases - Presents design approaches that ensure data accuracy and consistency and help boost performance - Includes three case studies, each illustrating a different database design challenge - Reviews the basic concepts of databases and database design, then turns to creating, populating, and retrieving data using SQL

R for Data Science
R for Data Science

Author: Hadley Wickham

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2016-12-12

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1491910364

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Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible. Authors Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund guide you through the steps of importing, wrangling, exploring, and modeling your data and communicating the results. You'll get a complete, big-picture understanding of the data science cycle, along with basic tools you need to manage the details. Each section of the book is paired with exercises to help you practice what you've learned along the way. You'll learn how to: Wrangle—transform your datasets into a form convenient for analysis Program—learn powerful R tools for solving data problems with greater clarity and ease Explore—examine your data, generate hypotheses, and quickly test them Model—provide a low-dimensional summary that captures true "signals" in your dataset Communicate—learn R Markdown for integrating prose, code, and results

Relational Database Design and Implementation
Relational Database Design and Implementation

Author: Jan L. Harrington

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2009-09-02

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0080885012

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Fully revised, updated, and expanded, Relational Database Design and Implementation, Third Edition is the most lucid and effective introduction to the subject available for IT/IS professionals interested in honing their skills in database design, implementation, and administration. This book provides the conceptual and practical information necessary to develop a design and management scheme that ensures data accuracy and user satisfaction while optimizing performance, regardless of experience level or choice of DBMS.The book begins by reviewing basic concepts of databases and database design, then briefly reviews the SQL one would use to create databases. Topics such as the relational data model, normalization, data entities and Codd's Rules (and why they are important) are covered clearly and concisely but without resorting to "Dummies"-style talking down to the reader.Supporting the book's step-by-step instruction are three NEW case studies illustrating database planning, analysis, design, and management practices. In addition to these real-world examples, which include object-relational design techniques, an entirely NEW section consisting of three chapters is devoted to database implementation and management issues. - Principles needed to understand the basis of good relational database design and implementation practices - Examples to illustrate core concepts for enhanced comprehension and to put the book's practical instruction to work - Methods for tailoring DB design to the environment in which the database will run and the uses to which it will be put - Design approaches that ensure data accuracy and consistency - Examples of how design can inhibit or boost database application performance - Object-relational design techniques, benefits, and examples - Instructions on how to choose and use a normalization technique - Guidelines for understanding and applying Codd's rules - Tools to implement a relational design using SQL - Techniques for using CASE tools for database design

Database Design and SQL for DB2
Database Design and SQL for DB2

Author: James Cooper

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781583473573

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This book is designed for professional application developers and college-level students who want to become developers. It features thorough and updated coverage of database design and SQL for DB2. Topics covered include database concepts, SQL inquiries, web applications, and database security. The material is reinforced by numerous illustrations, examples, and exercises.

Fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems
Fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems

Author: S. Sumathi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 793

ISBN-13: 3540483993

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This book provides comprehensive coverage of fundamentals of database management system. It contains a detailed description on Relational Database Management System Concepts. There are a variety of solved examples and review questions with solutions. This book is for those who require a better understanding of relational data modeling, its purpose, its nature, and the standards used in creating relational data model.

Databases Illuminated
Databases Illuminated

Author: Catherine Ricardo

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 687

ISBN-13: 1449606008

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Integrates database theory with a practical approach to database design and implementation. From publisher description.

Inside Relational Databases with Examples in Access
Inside Relational Databases with Examples in Access

Author: Mark Whitehorn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-04-06

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1846286875

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Contents Should we tell you the whole story? Of course, there is an inevitable tension in trying to work like this. For example, in Chapter 16 we talk about referential integrity. There are - sentially six different flavors of referential integrity but Access only s- ports four of them (they are the most important ones however, so you aren’t missing out on too much). The problem is this. Should we tell you about the other two? If we do, as an Access user you have every right to be annoyed that we are telling you about a feature you can’t use. On the other hand, the six different types that we describe are part of the re- tional world and this book is about that world – we are not trying to teach you how to use Access, we are simply using Access to illustrate the relational model. Ultimately we decided to risk your ire and to describe all of the features of the relational model as we see it, even if Access doesn’t support all of them. One advantage of this approach is that if you need to use a different database engine you will almost certainly find the extra information useful. Incidentally, this is not meant to imply that Access is somehow lacking as a relational database engine. The reason we chose it for the first book is that it is such a good example of a relational database tool.