Step up to professional-quality relational database development with DESIGNING RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS. This book is an ideal introduction to the core precepts 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. Topics covered include:
The basic guiding principles tools and techniques of the relational database model
The rich set of tools for database development available from Microsoft from Microsoft Access 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 to the database technologies in Microsoft Visual Basic®
Solving relational database design problems in real-world scenarios
Creating effective user interfaces for your database systems
Determining data structures based on work processes
An electronic version of this book is available on the companion CD.