DATABASE MANAGEMENT

1. The hierarchy of data

1.1. Characters

1.2. Fields

1.3. Records

1.4. New node

2. High - Tech talk

2.1. Ensure consistency of your data with normalization

3. File processing versus databases

3.1. File processing systems

3.2. The database approach

4. Chapter Summary

5. Database management systems

5.1. Data dictionary

5.2. File retrieval and maintenance

5.3. Data security

5.4. Backup and recovery

6. Relational,Object oriented,And multidimensional Databases

6.1. Relational databases

6.2. Object - Oriented databases

6.3. Mutidimensional databases

7. Databases,Data,And Information

7.1. Data Integrity

7.2. Qualities of Valuable Information

8. Technology Trailblazers

8.1. E.F. Codd

8.2. Larry Ellison

9. Maintaining data

9.1. Adding Records

9.2. Changing Records

9.3. Deleting Records

9.4. Validating data

10. Companies on the cutting edge

10.1. Oracle

10.2. Sybase

11. Database Administration

11.1. Database design guidelines

11.2. Role of database analysts and administrators

11.3. Role of the employee as a user

12. Web Databases