Resources - Database Management Systems

Database Management Systems - Prof. Holowczak

Database Management Systems

This page contains some additional resources related to the databse courses.

YaHoo! - Databases Page
Yahoo - CASE Page
DBMS Magazine/Intelligent Enterprise Has an on-line Buyer's Guide listing many CASE tools, and diagramming tools and DBMS.

Popkin Software CASE tools for structured & object-oriented methods, data modeling & BPR. Generates schema, C++, Smalltalk, reverse engineers and links to PowerBuilder.
Visible Systems Corp. Makers of Visible Analyst and EasyCase products. Some trial versions available.
RFF Electronics Makers of RFFlow - a diagramming tool. Trial versions available.
PowerSoft (part of Sybase) Makers of the PowerDesigner CASE software. This used to be called "S-Designer". Powersoft (makers of PowerBuilder) is a subsidiary of Sybase

Building the Data Warehouse (2nd edition) by W. H. Inmon. QED Publishing Group. 1996. http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/14161-5.htm
The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball. John Wiley and Sons. 1996. http://www.rkimball.com/book.htm
Also, many of Kimball's articles appear in DBMS Magzine. http://www.dbmsmag.com/
Fundamentals of Database Systems by Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe. Third Edition. Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1999.
Modern Database Management - Oracle Edition by Fred R. McFadden, Jeffrey A. Hoffer and Mary B. Prescott, 656 pages, Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1999, Paper+CD-ROM 0-201-38372-1
Book's web site including an Oracle Designer/2000 and Developer tutorial
New Perspectives on Microsoft Access '97 - Comprehensive by Adamski, Joseph J. and Hommel, Charles Course Technologies, 1998. ISBN: 0-7600-7309-0
Course Technologies publishes a number of other comprehensive tutorials on MS Access and other MS Office tools. Their web site also contains files that accompany the tutorial that can be downloaded.