Your First Guide to Database Design

Our lives follow and leave behind a trail of electronic data from credit card and bank transactions to health information to social networking. Today’s world is completely dependent on this flow of information and employers are increasingly looking for people with the right technical skills to help manage it. Understanding how databases work is a major step in effectively working with the data that’s important to you and your career.

'Your First Guide to Database Design' is a helpful guide for both beginners and I.T. professionals who need more information on how to organize and store large or small amounts of information on any subject. Whatever database software you're using, this book will show you how to model the data, create an organized system of tables and use Structured Query Language (SQL) to read and write data to your new database. Each chapter includes review questions, exercises and a glossary of terms to help you understand the concepts more fully.

'Your First Guide to Database Design' is written with the database beginner in mind and uses plain language and everyday examples such as the downloadable Job Search Plus database program to help the average person relate to and understand the principles behind database design.