Introduction to Databases with Web Applications

By Martin Prygmore
Pearson Education
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
November 2007
ISBN: 9780321263599
712 pages, Illustrated
$122.50 Paper Original

Description

Connecting databases to the world wide web is an increasingly important skill for computer scientists and MIS/BIS as the WWW breaks down the traditional barriers of information sharing across organisations, allowing this vital process to be done cheaply and efficiently. Traditional database books present database design with any material on web-applications being a tackled later, almost as an afterthought. Similarly, web-development books may gloss over databases in a single chapter on SQL.

This book discusses database development but always in the context of the web. Thus it gives a genuine understanding of how to implement web databases rather than presenting one field and simply trying to ‘bolt-on’ the other afterwards. That said, it covers the core concepts of a traditional database design course and so offers the flexibility of learning database design separate from the web applications if desired.

Scripting is covered first so that, should the reader want to get the web context from the start, they understand how their application will be implemented before trying to design it.

Contents

Preface Acknowledgements

  1. The web database environment
  2. Network, database and web technology
  3. Data models
  4. Web database implementation
  5. Introduction to the SQL data language
  6. More features of the SQL data language
  7. Further issues in web database implementation
  8. Conceptual database design
  9. Logical database design
  10. Physical database design
  11. Web-data design
  12. XML

Appendices Glossary Bibliography

Features


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