March 2003
Beginner
672 pages
14h
English
book
Database Design for Mere Mortals™: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design, Second Edition
by Michael J. Hernandez
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Index
Abbreviations
in field names, 210
in field specifications, 292
in final table list, 195–96
Acronyms
in field names, 210
in field specifications, 292
in final table list, 195–96
Action-oriented questions, 344
Addition (+), 306
Aerodynamic theories, 31
Aggregate views, 454–58
Aliases, 289–91
Alphanumeric data, 296
American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 22, 294
Analytical database, 4–5
designing, 501–2
Anomalies, using ideal field to resolve, 213–16
Ansa Software, 19
Application development, xliii
Application oriented business rules, 407–9
Application problems, xxxviii–xxxix
Application program, reviewing, 505
Approximate numeric data type, 295
Artificial candidate keys, 259–61
Ashton-Tate, 19
Associative questions, ...