About the Book
This book brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology ? from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases.
The proposed book expertly combines the finest database design material from the Morgan Kaufmann portfolio. Individual chapters are derived from a select group of MK books authored by the best and brightest in the field. These chapters are combined into one comprehensive volume in a way that allows it to be used as a reference work for those interested in new and developing aspects of database design.
This book represents a quick and efficient way to unite valuable content from leading database design experts, thereby creating a definitive, one-stop-shopping opportunity for customers to receive the information they would otherwise need to round up from separate sources.
Chapters contributed by various recognized experts in the field let the reader remain up to date and fully informed from multiple viewpoints.Details multiple relational models and modeling languages, enhancing the readerOCOs technical expertise and familiarity with design-related requirements specification. Coverage of both theory and practice brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases."
About the Author :
O'Neil is an internationally recognized expert on data warehousing & business rules Elizabeth O'Neill was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She studied at the Cleveland Art Institute, The Chicago Institute of Art, and Illinois University. For 25 years, she has taught art on many educational levels. O'Neill became a docent at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1979 and continues to guide others through the Museum. As a practicing artist, she has her own studio and exhibits regularly in many galleries. Markus Schneider: 1983-1990 Studium der Informatik an der UniversitAt Dortmund; 1991-1995 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrgebiet Praktische Informatik IV der FernUniversitAt Hagen; Promotion 1995. 1995-2001 Hochschulassistent an der FernUniversitAt Hagen mit Forschungsschwerpunkt im Bereich
Datenbanksysteme, insbesondere rAumliche, raum-zeitliche und Fuzzy-Datenbanksysteme. Seit Januar 2001: Assistant Professor an der University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, im Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE); Forschungsinteressen und -schwerpunkte: Datenmodellierung, Datenbanksysteme
allg., erweiterbare Datenbanksysteme, rAumliche/geometrische Datenbanken, raum-zeitliche Datenbanken, Fuzzy-Datenbanken, genomische Datenbanken, angewandte algorithmische Geometrie.
Graeme Simsion is the author of the #1 bestseller The Rosie Project. An international hit, the novel was optioned for film by Sony Pictures. Simsion lives in Australia with his wife, Anne, and their two children. Dr. Terry Halpin is Distinguished Professor and Vice President (Conceptual Modeling) at Northface University. He obtained the following academic qualifications at The University of Queensland: BSc, DipEd, BA, MLitStud, PhD. After many years in academia, he worked on data modeling technology at Asymetrix Corporation, InfoModelers Inc., Visio Corporation, and Microsoft Corporation, before returning to academia to develop data models and curricula to facilitate application development using a business rules approach to informatics. His research focuses on conceptual modeling and conceptual query technology. He is the recipient of the DAMA International Achievement Award for Education (2002), is a member of IFIP WG 8.1 (Information Systems) and several academic program committees, is an editor or reviewer for several academic journals, and has presented seminars and tutorials at dozens of international conferences. Andy Ihnatko describes himself as "the world's 42nd most-beloved industry personality" because "it's vaguely credible but utterly impossible to prove or disprove, and thus precisely the sort of tagline I was looking for." An unabashed geek ("The bashings ended when I left high school for Rensselaer Polytechnic, thank God"), Andy's been writing about tech since 1989. In the past, he's written for every single magazine or website with the word "Mac" in it, highlighted by 10 years as MacUser and then Macworld's back-page opinion columnist. He's currently the "Chicago Sun-Times"' technology columnist.
In his pursuit of "heroically stupid applications of technology," Andy has built an animatronic Darth Vader doll that could be controlled over the Internet via telepresence to hassle his roommate's cats and written and published a complete set of plans and instructions for converting any Classic-style Macintosh into a fully functional 2.5-gallon aquarium. "The Original MacQuarium" was one of the Internet's first e-Books and can be downloaded from several sites after a quick Google search.
This is Andy's fourth book. Andy lives in Boston with his two goldfish, Click and Drag. He invites you to visit his aptly named "Colossal Waste Of Bandwidth" at www.andyi.com. Dr. Jan L. Harrington has been working with and writing about the Macintosh since March 1984. In her day job, she is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of CS/IS/IT at Marist College, where she carries the torch for Macintosh users with great enthusiasm. Her 30+ published books include more than a dozen Macintosh-specific titles, including several on various flavors of the Macintosh OS. Tony Morgan is a pastor and the chief strategic officer at NewSpring Church in Anderson, South Carolina. Also a popular church culture blogger, he has written about staffing, technology, strategic planning, and leadership for "Outreach "and "Rev "magazines, Pastors.com, and PurposeDriven.com. His first book with B&H Publishing Group is "Killing Cockroaches: And Other Scattered Musings on Leadership". Tony and his wife, Emily, have four children.
