Database Concepts Paperback – Illustrated, 13 January 2017

• The material on Structured Query Language in Chapter 3 has been recognized and expanded to provide a more concise and comprehensive presentation of SQL topics. New material to illustrate the concepts of SQL joins has been added to Chapter 3 to make this material easier for students to understand
• The discussion of SQL is continued in a revised and expanded Appendix E, which is now retitled as "Advanced SQL", and which continues a discussion of the SQL ALTER statement, SQL set operators (UNION), SQL correlated sub queries, SQL views an SQL/Persistent Stored Modules (SQL/PSM).
• Microsoft Office 2016, and particularly Microsoft Access 2016, is now the basic software used in the book and is shown running on Microsoft Windows 10.
• DBMS software coverage has been updated to include Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition, which is now freely available from Microsoft and which has the full functionality of the Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition.
• DBMS software coverage has been updated to include MySQL 5.7 Community Server.
• DBMS software coverage on Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (Appendix A), Oracle Database Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) (Appendix B) and MySQL 5.7 Community Server (Appendix C) has been extended, and now includes detailed cover of software installation and configuration.
• The discussions of importing Microsoft Excel DATE into a DBMS table has been moved from Appendix E into the specific coverage of each of the DBMS products - see coverage of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in Appendix A, of Oracle Database Express Edition 9Oracle Database XE) in Appendix B, and of MySQL 5.7 Community Server in Appendix C.
• Chapter 8 has been updated to include material on cloud computing and virtualization in addition to revisions tying together the various topics of the chapter. This gives a more complete, contextualized treatment of Big Data and its various facets and relationships to the other topics.
• Appendices J and K continue to expand on Chapter 8. Coverage of decision trees is added to Appendix J at a level similar to that of the coverage of market basket analysis. Appendix K now includes coverage of JSON modeling (and retains the XML coverage) for document-based NoSQL databases. Appendix K also now includes basic coverage and examples of a document-based NoSQL database management system, MongoDB.

We kept all the main innovations included in DBC e06 and DBC e07, including:

• 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 2016 now includes Microsoft Access switchboard forms (covered in Appendix H, "The Access Workbench - Section H - Microsoft Access 2016 Switchboards"), which are used to build menus for database applications. Switchboard forms can be used to build database applications that have a user-friendly main menu that users can use to display forms, print reports, and run queries.
• Each chapter now features an independent Case Question set. The Case Question sets are problem sets that generally do not require the student to have completed work on the same case in a previous chapter (there is one intentional exception that ties data modeling and database design together). Although in some instances the same basic named case may be used in different chapters, each instance is still completely independent of any other instance.
• Material on SQL programming via SQL/Persistent Stored Modules (SQL/PSM) has been added to Appendix E to provide a better-organized and expanded discussion of this material, which had previously been spread among other parts of the book.

David M. Kroenke entered  the computing profession as a summer intern at the RAND Corporation  in 1967. Since then, his career has spanned  education,  industry, consulting, and publishing.

He has taught at the University of Washington, Colorado State University, and Seattle University. Over the years, he has led dozens of teaching seminars for college professors. In 1991 the International Association of Information Systems named him Computer Educator of the Year.  In  industry,  Kroenke  has  worked  for  the  U.S. Air  Force  and  Boeing Computer Services, and he was a principal in the startup of three companies. He was also vice presi- dent of product  marketing and development for the Microrim Corporation  and was chief technologist for the database division of Wall Data, Inc. He is the father of the semantic object data model. Kroenke’s consulting clients include IBM Corporation,  Microsoft, Computer Sciences Corporation,  and numerous other companies and organizations.

David J. Auer is a Senior Instructor Emeritus at the College of Business (CBE) of Western Washington  University in  Bellingham, WA.  He  served  as the  director  of Information Systems and Technology Services at CBE from 1994 to 2014 and taught in CBE’s Department  of Decision Sciences from 1981 to 2015. He has taught CBE courses in quan- titative methods, production  and operations management, statistics, finance, and manage- ment information systems. Besides managing CBE’s computer,  network, and other technology resources, he also teaches management information  systems courses. He has taught the Principles of Management Information  Systems and Business Database Development courses, and he was responsible for developing CBE’s network infrastructure courses, including Computer Hardware and Operating Systems, Telecommunications, and Network Administration.

Scott L. Vandenberg has been on the Computer Science faculty at Siena College since 1993, where he regularly teaches three different database courses at several levels to both computer science and business majors. Prior to arriving at Siena, he taught undergraduate and  graduate  courses in database  systems at the  University of Massachusetts—Amherst. Since arriving at Siena, he also taught graduate and undergraduate  database courses at the University of Washington—Seattle. He has developed five different database courses over this time. His other teaching experience includes introductory computer science, introductory programming, data structures, management information systems, and three years teaching Siena’s required interdisciplinary freshman writing course.

Robert C. Yoder began his professional career at the University at Albany as a systems pro-grammer managing mainframes and Unix servers. He has two years of research experience working on 3-D solid modeling systems. Robert holds BS and MS degrees in computer science and a PhD in information science, all from the University at Albany.