(1) Combine concepts and practice. The textbook and the accompanying supplements have been designed to provide close integration between concepts and practice.

(2) Emphasize problem-solving skills. This book features problem-solving guidelines to help students master the fundamental skills of data modeling, normalization, query formulation, and application development.

(3) Provide introductory and advanced material: Business students who use this book may have a variety of backgrounds. This book provides enough depth to satisfy more advanced courses, but the advanced parts are placed so that they can be skipped by the less inclined.

Part I: Application Development with Relational Databases

Chapter 1: Introduction to Database Management

Chapter 2: The Relational Data Model

Chapter 3: Query Formulation with SQL

Chapter 4: Advanced Query Formulation with SQL

Chapter 5: Application Development with Views

Part II: Database Development

Chapter 6: Introduction to Database Development

Chapter 7: Data Modeling

Chapter 8: Normalization of Relational Tables

Chapter 9: View Design and Integration

Chapter 10: Physical Database Design

Chapter 11: Database Design for Student Loan Limited

Part III: Managing Database Environments

Chapter 12: Data and Database Administration

Chapter 13: Transaction Management

Chapter 14: Data Warehouse Technology and Management

Chapter 15: Client-Server Processing and Distributed Databases

Chapter 16: Object Database Management Systems

Glossary of terms

Bibliography

Web Resources

Index

Table of Contents for Access 97 and Access 2000 Labson CD-ROM:

1. An Introduction to Microsoft Access

2. Database Creation Lab

3. Query Lab

4. Single Table Form Lab

5. Hierarchical Form Lab

6. Report Lab

7. User Interface Lab