Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Managerial Perspective. 1. Managing Data. 2. Information. Data Modeling and SQL. 3. The Single Entity. 4. The One-to-Many Relationship. 5. The Many-to-Many Relationship. 6. One-to-One and Recursive Relationships. 7. Data Modeling. Basic Structures. 8. Normalization and Other Data Modeling Methods. 9. The Relational Model and Relational Algebra. 10. SQL. SQL Playbook. Database Architectures and Implementations. 11. Data Structure and Storage. 12. Data Processing Architectures. 13. Object-Oriented Data Management. 14. Spatial and Temporal Data Management. Organizational Memory Technologies. 15. Organizational Intelligence Technologies. 16. The Web and Data Management. 17. SQL and Java. 18. XML: Managing Data Exchange. Managing Organizational Memory. 19. Data Integrity. 20. Data Administration. 21. U-Commerce and Data Management. Photo Credits. Index.

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