Introduction To Database Design

The book, Introduction to Computer and Data Processing presents to the general public, professional and non-professional alike, the rudiments of data processing. It explains in simple language the various computing terminologies and new technologies. The approach adopted in this book allows for a better appreciation of the very wide scope of the discipline at a glance. Key topics including: Introduction to file system, Introduction to database design, Database management systems (dbms), Database design and modeling, Database languages, Database administration and security, Database design 2: Object-oriented data modeling, Characteristics generally required by an object oriented approach; Object-oriented database, File structure and physical storage, Indexing, hashing, query processing and optimization, Transaction and concurrency control, Recovery system: transactions and recovery, Dbms applications, Introduction to data warehousing, and Data mining.