This book is intended for IT professionals and students who want to learn how to design, analyze, and understand databases. The material will benefit those who want a better high-level understanding of databases such as proposal managers, architects, project managers, and even customers. The material will also benefit those who will actually design, build, and work with databases such as database designers, database administrators, and programmers. In many projects, these roles overlap so the same person may be responsible for working on the proposal, managing part of the project, and designing and creating the database.  This book is aimed at IT professionals and students of all experience levels. It does not assume that you have any previous experience with databases or programs that use them. It doesn’t even assume that you have experience with computers. All you really need is a willingness and desire to learn. This book explains database design. It tells how to plan a database’s structure so the database will be robust, resistant to errors, and flexible enough to accommodate a reasonable amount of future change. It explains how to discover database requirements, build data models to study data needs, and refine those models to improve the database’s effectiveness. The book solidifies these concepts by working through a detailed example that designs a realistic database. Later chapters explain how to actually build databases using two common database products: Access 2007 and MySQL. The book finishes by describing some of the topics you need to understand to keep a database running effectively such as database maintenance and security. This book explains database design. It tells how to determine what should go in a database and how the database should be structured to give the best results. To remain database neutral, the book does not assume you are using a particular database so you don’t need any particular software or hardware. To work through the Exercises, all you really need is a pencil and some paper. You are welcome to type solutions into your computer if you like but you may actually find working with pencil and paper easier than using a graphical design tool to draw pictures, at least until you are comfortable with database design and are ready to pick a computerized design tool.

Beginning Database Design Solutions

Computers & Technology

Rod Stephens

Databases & Big Data

Wrox Press

MCSD Certification Toolkit (Exam 70-483): Programming in C#

Gerry O'Brien

Tiberiu Covaci

Vincent Varallo

Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms

wiley

Stay ahead of the game with this comprehensive guide to the C# programming language Well-known C# expert Rod Stephens gives novice and experienced developers a comprehensive tutorial and reference to standard C#. This new title fully covers the latest C# language standard, C# 5.0, as well as its implementation in the 2013 release of Visual Studio. The author provides exercises and solutions; and his C# Helper website will provide readers and students with ongoing support. This resource is packed with tips, tricks, tutorials, examples, and exercises and is the perfect professional companion for programmers who want to stay ahead of the game. Author Rod Stephens is a well-known programming authority and has written more than 25 programming books covering C#, Java, VB, and other languages. His books have sold more than 150,000 copies in multiple editions. This book's useful exercises and solutions are designed to support training and higher education adoptions. <ul> <li>Learn the full range of C# programming language features</li> <li>Quickly locate information for specific language features in the reference section</li> <li>Familiarize yourself with handling data types, variables, constants, and much more</li> <li>Experiment with editing and debugging code and using LINQ</li> </ul> Beginning through intermediate-level programmers will benefit from the accessible style of C# 5.0 Programmer's Reference and will have access to its comprehensive range of more advanced topics. Additional support and complementary material are provided at the C# Helper website, <a href="http://www.csharphelper.com/">www.csharphelper.com</a>. Stay up-to-date and improve your programming skills with this invaluable resource.

C# 5.0 Programmer's Reference

Beginning Software Engineering

A complete introduction to building robust and reliable software Beginning Software Engineering demystifies the software engineering methodologies and techniques that professional developers use to design and build robust, efficient, and consistently reliable software. Free of jargon and assuming no previous programming, development, or management experience, this accessible guide explains important concepts and techniques that can be applied to any programming language. Each chapter ends with exercises that let you test your understanding and help you elaborate on the chapter's main concepts. Everything you need to understand waterfall, Sashimi, agile, RAD, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and many other development models is inside! <ul> <li>Describes in plain English what software engineering is</li> <li>Explains the roles and responsibilities of team members working on a software engineering project</li> <li>Outlines key phases that any software engineering effort must handle to produce applications that are powerful and dependable</li> <li>Details the most popular software development methodologies and explains the different ways they handle critical development tasks</li> <li>Incorporates exercises that expand upon each chapter's main ideas</li> <li>Includes an extensive glossary of software engineering terms</li> </ul>

C# 24-Hour Trainer

Steve Dawson

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