Inside the Black Box: How Computer Databases Work

Key management personnel today accept on blind faith what they are being told about their computers.

The technologies of engineering and science are operating full force. There is a real issue as to whether their complex tools are fully understood by anyone outside the small group of engineers who develop and use these tools.

Key management personnel are accepting on blind faith what they are being told about the “black boxes.” The truth is that managers from the entrepreneur’s Excel spreadsheet to the White House’s website are ignorant of the complex tools over which they preside.

Inside the Black Box: How Computer Databases Work opens up the black box of computer databases and explains how spreadsheets, data warehouses, and data mining operations work in simple, yet accurate terms in plain English anyone can understand.

Must reading for anyone without computer training who manages databases and needs to stop accepting on blind faith what subordinates tell them.

Slide format in color with illustrations

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