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Database Design for Mere Mortals: 25th Anniversary Edition, 4th Edition
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Database Design for Mere Mortals: 25th Anniversary Edition, 4th Edition

by Michael J. Hernandez
December 2020
Beginner content levelBeginner
640 pages
14h 45m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Introduction

Plain cooking cannot be entrusted to plain cooks.

—COUNTESS MORPHY

It never ceases to amaze me how much database software programs have evolved in the past 25 years. We’ve gone from databases stored and run from personal computers to databases shared and centralized company-wide on client/server architectures connected within local area networks and wide area networks, to apps accessed on personal devices with databases stored in the cloud.

Database management systems have evolved, too. They are much easier to use and maintain, they now handle very high volumes of data, and they’re as ubiquitous as hamburgers. You use applications built with them all the time on your computer and devices whenever you’re working, shopping, or looking ...

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ISBN: 9780136788133