Database management
Olaf is being stubborn (modified from: Barach, 1962)
It is not an exaggeration to say that the world, as we know it today, runs on databases. They are all around us – in fact, you are sort of looking at one right now. Databases, especially large ones, are fairly useless though without a database management system keeping track of its input and output. Since most databases store information in the form of tables, or relations, we speak of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS).
Further reading:
- Introduction to database design (Laudon and Laudon, 2009)
- Introduction to SQL (Laudon and Laudon, 2009)
- Entity Relationship Data Modeling (online at: www.scribd.com [access 14/04/2009])
Date: March 16, 2009