Modern Database Management

Part I: The Context of Database Management Chapter 1.The Database Environment Chapter 2.The Database Development Process An Overview of Part Part II: Database Analysis Chapter 3.Modeling Data in the Organization Chapter 4.The Enhanced E-R Model and Business Rules Part III: Database Design Chapter 5.Logical Database Design and the Relational Model Chapter 6.Physical Database Design and Performance IV: Implementation Chapter 7.Introduction to SQL Chapter 8.Advanced SQL Chapter 9.The Client/Server Database Environment Chapter 10.The Internet Database Environment Chapter 11.Data Warehousing Part V: Advanced Database Topics Chapter 12. Data and Database Administration Chapter 13. Distributed Databases Chapter 14. Object-Oriented Data Modeling Chapter 15. Object-Oriented Database Development Appendix A E-R Modeling Tools and Notation Appendix B Advanced Normal Forms Appendix C Data Structures Appendix D Object-Relational Database

Jeffrey A. Hoffer (hoffer@udayton.edu) is the Sherman -- Standard Register Professor of Data Management in the MIS, Operations Management, and Decision Sciences Department at the University of Dayton. He received a PhD from Cornell University in 1973 and was on the faculties of Case Western Reserve University and Indiana University before joining UD. He is a founder of the INFORMS College on Information Systems, the International Conference on Information Systems (and its conference chair in 1985), and the Association for Information Systems. He is author of many scholarly publications in the areas of database management, data warehousing, systems analysis, strategic systems planning, and human-computer interaction. He is co-author of several leading textbooks: Modern Database Management, Modern Systems Analysis and Design, Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design, Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design, and Managing Information Technology: What Managers Need to Know, all published by Prentice-Hall. Dr. Hoffer is also an Associate Director of the Teradata University Network, the leading web portal for faculty and students in the data management, data warehousing, decision support, and business intelligence areas.