Database Concepts 6th Edition by David Kroenke and Auer

Database Concepts 6th Edition by David M. Kroenke and David Auer introduces the essential concepts students need to create and use small databases. This text's presentation of database concepts offers information on how to create a database management system-regardless of the specific software involved. Overall, this presentation helps students absorb the process of database creation and implementation, rather than simply show them how to complete the steps in one program.

This text continues using The Access Workbench feature, which was first introduced in the third edition and now reflects Access 2010. Illustrating the chapters' concepts and techniques using Access, The Access Workbench topics start by creating a database and a single table in Section 1 and move through various topics, finishing with Web database processing against an Access database in Section 7 and using Access (together with Excel) to produce PivotTable OLAP reports in Section 8.

Three projects run throughout the text, encouraging students to apply the concepts they learned in the chapters to real-life business situations. Because of the book's conceptual nature, any number of database programs can be used in class. This approach helps students focus on database concepts rather than the features and functions of a particular product.

New material on the development of non-relational unstructured data stores (such as Cassandra and HBase) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is also included Chapter 8. The coverage of Web database applications in Chapter 7 now includes data input Web form pages. This allows Web database applications to be built with both data input and data reading Web pages.

The coverage of Microsoft Access 2010 now includes Microsoft Access switchboard forms (covered in Chapter 4's section of “The Access Workbench”), which are used to build menus for database applications. This allows database applications to be built with a user-friendly main menu to display forms, print reports and run queries. Chapter independent Case Question sets. Each chapter now contains one or more assignable problem sets that generally do not require working on the same case in a previous chapter.

A new appendix has been added to show you how to use the product and Oracle SQL Developer GUI utility-Appendix B: Getting Started with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Express Edition. This appendix provides the basic knowledge, and Oracle SQL Developer screenshots are used in the book to illustrate specific concepts.

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