Data management : an organizational perspective

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Data management : an organizational perspective

Richard T. Watson

Wiley, c1996

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This textbook has been designed for MIS and MBA students on database management courses. Using organizational memory as a motivating feature, the book explores the critical impact of data on businesses and the importance of effective data management. It explains how databases are used and designed to manage data, but also discusses other management and storage technologies, including Hypertext, Groupware, and multimedia memory. The book's managerial orientation emphasizes why and how data is used in business, how organizations use databases to store and use data, and how to design and build a database.

Table of Contents

  • Organizational Memory
  • Information
  • The Single Entity
  • The One-and-Many Relationship
  • The Many-and Many Relationship
  • One-and-One and Reflexive Relationships
  • Data Modelling
  • SQL
  • Database Architectures
  • Storage and Structures
  • Relational Database Systems
  • Hierarchical Database Systems
  • Network Database Systems and CODASYL
  • Hypertext
  • Groupware
  • Multimedia Memory
  • Data Integrity
  • Data Administration
  • Project Management
  • Distributed Database and Future Directions.

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