Week 06

Operating System: Basic Concepts of the operating system, Windows installation, and troubleshooting.

  • DATABASES, DATA
  • AND INFORMATION
  • Data Integrity
  • Qualities of Valuable Information
  • THE HIERARCHY OF DATA
  • Characters
  • Fields
  • Records
  • Files
  • MAINTAINING DATA
  • Adding Records
  • Changing Records
  • Deleting Records
  • Validating Data
  • FILE PROCESSING VERSUS
  • DATABASES
  • File Processing Systems
  • The Database Approach
  • DATABASE MANAGEMENT
  • SYSTEMS
  • Data Dictionary
  • File Retrieval and Maintenance
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Data Security
  • RELATIONAL, OBJECT-ORIENTED,
  • AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL
  • DATABASES
  • Relational Databases
  • Object-Oriented Databases
  • Multidimensional Databases
  • WEB DATABASES
  • DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
  • Database Design Guidelines
  • Role of the Database Analysts
  • and Administrators
  • Role of the Employee as a User
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • COMPANIES ON THE CUTTING
  • EDGE
  • Oracle
  • Sybase
  • TECHNOLOGY TRAILBLAZERS
  • E. F. Codd
  • Larry Ellison