Contents: Getting started: introduction -- Introduction to structured query language -- Database design: The Rational model and normalization -- Database design using normalization -- Data modeling with the entity-relationship model -- Transforming data models into database designs -- Database implementation: SQL for database construction and application processing -- Database redesign -- Multiuser database processing: Managing multiuser databases -- Managing databases with oracle -- Managing databases with SQL server 2000 -- Database access standards: ODBC, OLE DB, ADO and ASP -- XML and ADO.NET -- JDBC, java server pages, and MySQL -- Conclusion: Database processing for business intelligence systems -- Appendix A: Introduction to microsoft access -- Appendix B: The IDEF1X standard -- Appendix C: UML-style entity-relationship diagrams -- Appendix D: Data structures for database processing -- Appendix E: The semantic object model.