Inside Relational Databases with Examples in Access

By Mark Whitehorn, Bill Marklyn Publisher: Springer Published: 10/7/2007 ISBN: 1-84628-394-9 Pages: 376 File type: PDF File size: 4.02 MB About Chapter 1 of Sir Henry Birkin’s autobiography “Full Throttle”, published in 1932, ends with the following: “I can waste no more time on this matter; for the end is reached of what I now confess to have been 24 pages of deceit. I have disguised under the designation of Chapter One what was really nothing more than an introduction; but I know quite well, that had I been honest and called it an introduction, nobody would have read it.” If Henry Birkin wasn’t my hero for racing two-ton motor cars on appalling road surfaces at speeds well in excess of 100 m.p.h., he would be my hero for sheer literary nerve. I’ll be less disingenuous. This chapter is an introduction. It defines the very basic terms that you may need like ‘database’, ‘relational’, ‘DBMS’ and ‘RDBMS’. It tells you why the book was written, at whom it is aimed, and how it is organized. If you know all of this already, or it sounds tedious and you really want to get down to the nitty gritty, please don’t bother reading this chapter; dive straight into the book at Chapter 2 or wherever you fancy. As far as we’re concerned, anyone who has paid us the considerable compliment of actually exchanging money for our words is entitled to read them as they please. Download URL: Inside.Relational.Databases.with.Examples.in.Access.Oct.2006.rar