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This book walks you through databases and SQL language database management systems, the software on which they are based, from the ground up. Readers will learn how recognize critical business information, design a database based on this information, and how to retrieve and modify that information in a useful manner. The book includes some of the most recent innovations in SQL database systems. Special Features Discusses the key role of data in daily business operations and strategic decisions Explains how to gather and organize critical business information Demonstrates the use of accepted data modeling procedures to design a relational database Explains the concept of data normalization and how to use standard normalization rules Introduces key elements of the SQL language, covering both accepted standards and vendor-specific implementations Covers how to use SQL language statements to manage databases and retrieve, modify, and maintain data. Focuses on critical real-world issues including application integration and securing data against disclosure and loss. About the Author Dr. Mark L. Gillenson has been practicing, researching, teaching, writing, and, most importantly, thinking, about data and database management for over twenty-five years, split between working for the IBM Corporation and being a professor in the academic world. While working for IBM, he designed databases for IBM's corporate headquarters, consulted on database issues for some of IBM's largest customers, taught database management at the prestigious IBM Systems Research Institute in New York, and conducted database seminars throughout the United States and on four continents. In one such seminar, he taught introduction to database to an IBM development group that went on to develop one of IBM's first relational database management system products, SQL/DS. Paulraj Ponniah PhD, a veteran IT professional, specializes in the design and implementation of database and data warehouse systems, as well as in teaching database and data warehouse courses. Frank Miller has nearly 30 years experience designing, developing, and delivering technical training materials. For 20 of those years, SQL language database management systems have been an area of special interest and expertise. During that time he has written books and other training materials that are used by various schools and professional organizations in the United States and around the world.