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Product Description: This text examines the issues, theories and techniques in information management. Each topic is organized as a "briefing", using a standard structure that distinguishes between established ideas, possible arguments and new ideas. The text aims to stimulate discussion about the assumptions, implications and relevance of representative ideas and methods of information management...read more

Product Description: This book offers an approach to the problem of understanding database technology. It covers well-established technologies, such as relational databases and databases for the PC; prominent emerging technologies, such as client-server, repository and object-oriented databases; and less familiar technologies, such as full text, hypertext, picture database and spatial database...read more

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