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 Has an on-line Buyer's Guide listing many CASE tools, and diagramming tools and DBMS.

Platinum Technology/Logic Works Makers of the ERWin E-R modeling software.
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

Oracle Corp. Main page including:
- Server Technologies
- Look under the "Try & Buy" page for Oracle software where you can purchase.
- Oracle Downloads - Free and trial software you can download.
Sybase
Informix
IBM DB2

INTERNET/INTRANET Putting the Web to Work: Building Applications for a New Business Model by David Baum. Oracle Magazine, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1996. http://www.oramag.com
Data Warehousing and the Web By Michael Miley. A number of articles from Oracle Magazine about Data Warehousing and Web Applications. http://www.oramag.com
Data Warehousing: Architecture for the Information Age by by Kelli Wiseth. Oracle Magazine, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1995. http://www.oramag.com
Data Warehousing: Rehashing Decision Support? by Kevin Strange. Oracle Magazine, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1995. http://www.oramag.com
The True Nature of a Data Warehouse by Wayne W. Eckerson. Oracle Magazine, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1995. http://www.oramag.com
DBMS Magazine is an excellent source for information and articles.
the Data Warehousing Information Center is an excellent source for all things DW and Data Mining.
Oracle Magazine
DM Review

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. Second Edition. Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1994. ISBN: 0805317481
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.