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Concise Guide to Databases: A Practical Introduction (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science),Used
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Modern businesses depend on data for their very survival, creating a need for sophisticated databases and database technologies to help store, organise and transport their valuable data.This easytoread textbook/reference presents a comprehensive introduction to databases, opening with a concise history of databases and of data as an organisational asset. As relational database management systems are no longer the only database solution, the book takes a wider view of database technology, encompassing big data, NoSQL, object and objectrelational, and inmemory databases. The text also examines the issues of scalability, availability, performance and security encountered when building and running a database in the real world.Topics and presents review and discussion questions at the end of each chapter, in addition to skillbuilding, handson exercises; introduces the fundamental concepts and technologies in database systems, placing these in an historic context; describes the challenges faced by database professionals; reviews the use of a variety of database types in business environments; discusses areas for further research within this fastmoving domain; suggests a structure for a potential university course in the preface.With its learningbydoing approach, supported by both theoretical and practical examples, this clearlystructured textbook will be of great value to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of computer science, software engineering, and information technology. Practising database professionals and application developers will also find the book an ideal reference that addresses today's business needs.
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