This textbook outlines database technology for college business students who study information technology for data resource management, to show them how to build and manage databases. It explains the fundamentals of database technology, with exercises and answers, as well as application projects with hands-on material for Microsoft Access. It covers database systems in general, including the difference between data, information, and knowledge, as well as the concept of data redundancy; data structure techniques used in databases; the entity-relationship model in database design; the relational database model; the normalization process; the SQL (Structured Query Language) database processing language; physical database design for large-scale databases; administration functions; distributed databases in the internet environment; high-dimensional data and relational databases in the data warehouse context; online analytical processing (OLAP); and NoSQL databases. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
