Product Description: Provides a methodology for using Oracle to develop maintainable systems. Part I covers management and implementation issues, and Part II walks through the transformation from business-oriented to systems- oriented models. Part III delves into issues of developing in the database environment and explores Oracles's GUI tools, with a view towards development of serious operational systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the history and structure of Database Management Systems, discusses the SQL query language, and covers four specific systems