What the book covers: database design and structure for any relational database system, including SQL Server, Access, IBM DB2, MySQL, and Oracle, plus coverage of SQL language

Readers need this book because: Many people new to databases, whether they come from a programming, admin, or web background, have no idea how to design and structure a database efficiently. They can make choices when building a new database that will adversely affect the database performance or cause them severe growing pains in the future. The book provides them with the design guidance to develop a good database that they can use on whatever platform they implement on

The approach in this book is: Example driven, for beginners, with only the theory that is useful