Synopses & Reviews
Twice recognized as one of the top ten most productive MIS researchers, Watson provides a balanced treatment of the technical and business sides of managing data. Management of data has never been more critical for organizations of any size. This book discusses the technical aspects of database design and implementation as well as the why and how of the management of databases, and the managerial issues and business philosophy behind databases.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Managerial Perspective
- Managing Data
- Information
Part II: Data Modeling and SQL
- The Single Entity
- The One-to-Many Relationship
- The Many-to-Many Relationship
- One-to-One and Recursive Relationships
- Data Modeling
Reference 1: Basic Structures
- Normalization and Other Data Modeling Methods
- The Relational Model
- SQL
Reference 2: SQL Playbook
Part III: Database Architectures and Implementations
- Data Structure and Storage
- Data Storage and Data Processing Architectures
- Hierarchical and Network Models
- Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
Part IV: Organizational Memory Technologies
- Groupware and Imaging
- Organizational Intelligence Technologies
- The Web and Data Management
- XML
Part V: Managing Organizational Memory
- Data Integrity
- Data Administration