Download or read book Data Analysis for Database Design written by David Howe and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2001-06-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Database systems -- Database management system architecture -- Tables -- Redundant vs duplicated data -- Repeating groups -- Determinants and identifiers -- Fully-normalised tables -- Introduction to entity-relationship modelling -- Properties of relationships -- Decomposition of many-many relationships -- Connection traps -- Skeleton entity-relationship models -- Attribute assignment -- First-level design -- Second-level design -- Distributed database systems -- Relational algebra -- Query optimisation -- The SQL language -- Object-orientation.