Основы реляционных баз данных: Базовый курс. Теория и практика

"This book is an introduction to the core principles and fundamentals of database design, focusing on critical planning issues that are often overlooked by beginning database designers. It also provides practical discussions and instructive examples of how to develop robust, professional-level database systems using the wide array of Microsoft database tools and technologies. It even gives you timesaving forms on CD-ROM to use as you design relational database systems."--Jacket Meeting the demand for a definitive, design-focused guidebook to Microsoft's database technologies, Riordan offers practical discussion and instructive examples. She clarifies the rich but vast set of Microsoft tools for database development--from Access 20000 and SQL Server 7.0 to the various data access technologies within Visual Basic. Source code is featured on the CD-ROM. So, what is this mythical creature called a relational database?