Relational Databases: Concepts, Design, and Administration (J Ranade Ibm Series)

A practical approach to everyday management of the relational database environment. Well respected database designer and developer Dr Kenmore Brathwaite offers practical solutions to the everyday problems faced by database designers, data administrators, database administrators, and programmers. His new book emphasizes database performance issues and standards, and provides specific techniques for effectively auditing the DB2 environment. It includes numerous concrete examples of data models and offers a practical approach to solving problems encountered in such areas as: MIS infrastructure support for the RDB environment; logical database design considerations; DB2, SQL, SQL/DS, ORACLE, and QMF; distributed relational DBMs; CASE tools; physical database design considerations; and the coexistence of relational and non-relational databases.