Always Learning

Modern Database Management, 8/E
Jeffrey A. Hoffer
Mary PrescottUniversity of Tampa
Fred McFaddenUniversity fo Colorado, Colorado Springs

ISBN-10: 0132212110
ISBN-13:  9780132212113

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2007
Format:  Cloth; 656 pp
Published:  03/10/2006


Print this content

In this section:


Description

 

For introductory courses in Database Management and Database Systems.

 

Modern Database Management is the leading text in the business database market. It's noted for its focus on the latest principles, concepts and technologies and what leading practitioners say is most important for database developers.

 


Features

Modern Database Management is the leading text in the business database market. It's noted for its focus on the latest principles, concepts and technologies and what leading practitioners say is most important for database developers.

 

Do you strive to help students develop marketing skills that meet practioners needs?

  • Leading seller in the database market because it uniquely focuses on material deemed important by practitioners as typified by the Data Management Association  (DAMA).

Do you seek flexibility in presentation?

  • Flexible organization allows chapters to be presented in a variety of sequences.

Do you try to build upon what students have learned in other courses and reinforce and expand their skills?

  • Text is distinctively written to be part of a wider IS curriculum. Topics are treated so as to reinforce principles from other IS courses, such as Systems Analysis and Design and Networking. 

 Do you like a variety of exercises for practice and homework purposes?

  • End of Chapter Material
    • Includes:
      • Review Questions
      • Problems and Exercises
      • Field Exercises. Thesehands-on minicases can be assigned individually or as team projects.
      • Project Case. In each chapter, The Mountain View Community Hospital case, begins with a description of the project as it relates to that chapter.  The case presents a series of project questions and exercises.
      • Web Resources.  Each chapter includes URLSs for websites that contain information that supplement the chapter to find updated product information, innovations after printing, background information to explore topics in greater depth, and resources for writing research papers. 

Do you use any software in the course?

  • CASE TOOLS Valuepack Packages.
    • We can package the following resources and software with the text: Oracle 10g ($8), SQL Server 2005 ($5), Visio 2002 ($5), Quittel: PH IT Career Guide at no additional cost, etc.

 


New To This Edition

 

  • Updated SQL chapters to the latest SQL standard and includes more on the newer analytical commands within SQL.

     

  • Changed from the traditional Chen E-R notation to more modern notation used by most E-R diagramming tools, the notation we've shown in Appendix A for ERWin, Visio, and others.

     

  • New linkage between database management and the new regulations (HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, in particular) on data quality and privacy.

     

  • The coverage of universal data models in Chapter 4 has been significantly improved by showing in steps the building blocks of the universal data model paradigm. 

  • Table of Contents

    Part I: The Context of Database Management

    Chapter 1.The Database Environment

    Chapter 2.The Database Development Process

    An Overview of Part

     

    Part II: Database Analysis

    Chapter 3.Modeling Data in the Organization

    Chapter 4.The Enhanced E-R Model and Business Rules

     

    Part III: Database Design

    Chapter 5.Logical Database Design and the Relational Model

    Chapter 6.Physical Database Design and Performance

     

    IV: Implementation

    Chapter 7.Introduction to SQL

    Chapter 8.Advanced SQL

    Chapter 9.The Client/Server Database Environment

    Chapter 10.The Internet Database Environment

    Chapter 11.Data Warehousing

     

    Part V: Advanced Database Topics

    Chapter 12. Data and Database Administration

    Chapter 13. Distributed Databases

    Chapter 14. Object-Oriented Data Modeling

    Chapter 15. Object-Oriented Database Development

     

    Appendix A

    E-R Modeling Tools and Notation

    Appendix B

    Advanced Normal Forms

    Appendix C

    Data Structures

    Appendix D

    Object-Relational Databases

     


    Next Edition(s)

    • Modern Database Management, 10/E
      Hoffer, Venkataraman & Topi
      ©2011  |  Prentice Hall  |  Cloth; 624 pp  |  Instock
      ISBN-10: 0136088392  |  ISBN-13: 9780136088394
      Brief Description  |  More Info



    Back to top

    Print this content

    In this section:


    Author Bios

    Jeffrey A. Hoffer (hoffer@udayton.edu) is the Sherman — Standard Register Professor of Data Management in the MIS, Operations Management, and Decision Sciences Department at the University of Dayton. He received a PhD from Cornell University in 1973 and was on the faculties of Case Western Reserve University and Indiana University before joining UD. He is a founder of the INFORMS College on Information Systems, the International Conference on Information Systems (and its conference chair in 1985), and the Association for Information Systems. He is author of many scholarly publications in the areas of database management, data warehousing, systems analysis, strategic systems planning, and human-computer interaction. He is co-author of several leading textbooks: Modern Database Management, Modern Systems Analysis and Design, Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design, Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design, and Managing Information Technology: What Managers Need to Know, all published by Prentice-Hall. Dr. Hoffer is also an Associate Director of the Teradata University Network, the leading web portal for faculty and students in the data management, data warehousing, decision support, and business intelligence areas.

    Back to top

    Print this content

    In this section:


    Websites and Online Courses

    Companion Website for Modern Database Management, 8/E
    Hoffer
    ©2007  |  Prentice Hall  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
    ISBN-10: 0132212129  |  ISBN-13: 9780132212120
    More Info

    Back to top

    Print this content

    In this section:

    Instructor's Resource Center Online, 8/E
    Hoffer
    ©2007  |  Prentice Hall  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
    ISBN-10: 0132212498  |  ISBN-13: 9780132212496

    Show Downloadable Files
     | More Info

    TestGen, 8/E
    Hoffer
    ©2007  |  Prentice Hall  |  Software  |  Instock
    ISBN-10: 013221248X  |  ISBN-13: 9780132212489

    Show Downloadable Files
     | More Info

    Back to top

    Companion Website for Modern Database Management, 8/E
    Hoffer
    ©2007  |  Prentice Hall  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
    ISBN-10: 0132212129  |  ISBN-13: 9780132212120
    More Info

    Back to top


    Websites and online courses

    Companion Website for Modern Database Management, 8/E
    Hoffer
    ©2007  |  Prentice Hall  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
    ISBN-10: 0132212129  |  ISBN-13: 9780132212120
    More Info

    Back to top

    Other student resources

    SQL Server 2005, 8/E
    Hoffer
    ©2007  |  Prentice Hall  |  Software  |  Instock
    ISBN-10: 0132241749  |  ISBN-13: 9780132241748
    More Info


    Websites and Online Courses

    Companion Website for Modern Database Management, 8/E
    Hoffer
    ©2007  |  Prentice Hall  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
    ISBN-10: 0132212129  |  ISBN-13: 9780132212120
    More Info

    Log in to the Instructor Resource Center

    Login name: 

      Password: 

    Forgot login/password?  |  Need to redeem an access code?

            

    Instructor Resource Center File Download

    This work is protected by local and international copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student learning. Dissemination or sale of any part of this work (including on the World Wide Web) will destroy the integrity of the work and is not permitted. The work and materials from this site should never be made available to students except by instructors using the accompanying text in their classes. All recipients of this work are expected to abide by these restrictions and to honor the intended pedagogical purposes and the needs of other instructors who rely on these materials.

    Cancel     I accept, proceed with download

    Print this content

    Pearson Higher Education offers special pricing when you choose to package your text with other student resources. If you're interested in creating a cost-saving package for your students, browse our available packages below, or contact your Pearson Higher Education representative to create your own package.

    Package ISBN-10: 0135149908 | ISBN-13: 9780135149904
    ©2008 | Instock
    Suggested retail price: $226.80  Buy from myPearsonStore

    This package contains:

    Hoffer, Prescott & McFadden | ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 656 pp
    Manzo | ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 352 pp


    Back to top