Mannino provides a foundation to understand database technology supporting enterprise computing concerns. As a new student of database management, you first need to understand fundamental concepts of database management and the relational data model. Then you need to master skills in query formulation, database design, and database application development. This textbook provides tools to help you understand relational databases and acquire skills to solve basic and advanced problems in query formulation, data modeling, normalization, data requirements for business applications, and customization of database applications.

After establishing these skills, you are ready to study the organizational context, role of database specialists, and the processing environments in which databases are used. Students will learn about decision-making needs, accountability requirements, organization structures, business architectures, and roles of database specialists associated with databases and database technology. For environments, this textbook presents fundamental database technologies in each processing environment and relates these technologies to new advances in electronic commerce and business intelligence.

You will learn vocabulary, architectures, and design issues of database technology that provide a background for advanced study of enterprise information systems, electronic commerce applications, and business intelligence.