Preface
Database systems and database design technology have undergone significant evolution in recent years as business applications have been dominated by the relational data model and relational database systems. The relational model has allowed the database designer to separately focus on logical design (defining the data relationships and tables) and physical design (efficiently storing data onto and retrieving data from physical storage). Other new technologies, such as data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining, as well as object-oriented, spatial, temporal, and multimedia databases, have also had an important impact on database design.
In this fourth edition, we continue to concentrate on techniques for database design in relational database ...
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