Hoffer focuses on the latest principles, concepts and technologies and what leading practitioners say is most important for database developers.

Database analysis, database design, SQL, client/server database environment, data warehousing, data quality and integration, and object-oriented data modeling.

Intended for professional development programs in introductory database management.

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Hoffer focuses on the latest principles, concepts and technologies and what leading practitioners say is most important for database developers.

Database analysis, database design, SQL, client/server database environment, data warehousing, data quality and integration, and object-oriented data modeling.

Intended for professional development programs in introductory database management.

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.'

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 Databases

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